42-usc-1981

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25-292 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process title-vii Whether rulings of courts below constitute an infringement of Petitioner's rights under Due Process Clauses of Constitution and related rights under 4…
23-7373 Giovanni DePalma v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim
23-6455 Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque…
23-487 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants' contractual dues is discriminatory?
23-275 Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes?
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can …
22-1058 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-pleadings standing sua-sponte Whether motion-initiated 'sua sponte' dismissal was proper
22-960 Christen Robinson Kelley v. Catherine Howden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights discrimination mixed-motive retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Did the District Judge err in granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's claims?
22-917 Nayonn Gray v. Autozoners, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights contract contract-services discriminatory-intent material-fact pretext racial-discrimination section-1981 summary-judgment Whether summary judgment should be granted when there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether a defendant's refusal to provide services requ…
22-832 Michael A. Caldwell, et al. v. Joseph M. Gasper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director, Michigan State Police, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination diversity-initiative employment employment-discrimination gender-preference protected-activity race-preference title-vii Whether opposition to an employer's 'Diversity Initiative' (non-remedial race and gender preferences) constitutes protected activity under 42 USC § 19…
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Was the petitioner's federal rights violated when Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992 (2002) held that a plaintiff does not need …
21-1385 Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment Should the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting test remain in employment discrimination cases involving 42 U.S.C. § 1981?
21-894 Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. New York 2021-12-17 Denied 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York erred in dismissing Petitioner's Wrongful Death Case for lack of a Certificate of Merit
21-5443 Rachel Crook v. Shea Fiduciary Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office pro-se-litigation treason If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution protec…
21-5442 Jasper Crook v. Robin Shea Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation-claim equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation treason-allegation If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution
21-5374 Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination Whether Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch Manager denied Plaintiff access to servicing her federal home loan due to racial discrimination
20-1622 Ramonica M. Luke v. University Health Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 admissible-evidence civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-evidence employment-discrimination honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext-analysis similarly-situated title-vii Pretext-by-discrimination
20-1101 Taniesheia Harden v. Comcast Corporation Seventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1981 42-usc-1981 burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-establishment court-of-appeals pleading-standard summary-judgment unsettled-law Is the grant of summary judgment proper when the movant does not meet its burden?
20-5697 Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith Tennessee 2020-09-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal …
19-1295 Rao S. Mandalapu v. Temple University Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination pretext reeves-v-sanderson retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Is it necessary for a plaintiff to show discriminatory or retaliatory 'animus' against a protected category in order to prevent dismissal at the summa…
19-6630 Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (a) against high-ranking government officials and officers of the court
19-6593 Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a lawsuit against the Respondent(s)
19-535 Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company Second Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial-discrimination,retaliation,title-vii,42-usc-1981
19-260 Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty…
19-5520 Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed IFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience Did the USCA8 err by not addressing civil-rights, 42-usc-1981, 42-usc-1982, 42-usc-1983, 42-usc-1985, 42-usc-1986, bivens, federal-torts-claim-act
19-135 Pamela J. Smith v. University of Maryland, Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived 1991-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 adverse-employment-action civil-rights employment mcdonongh-v-smith retaliation statute-of-limitations Whether retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. §1981 should accrue at the date of the adverse employment action or the date when the adverse employment de…
19-5359 Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act Whether defendants who have known about petitioner's disabilities status, but were intentionally indifferent and exploited the impairment of petitione…
18-1171 Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation?
18-8290 Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect the Plaintiffs from discrimination and r…
18-6690 Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination Does the Petitioner have the right to sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even after he has received his letter of right to sue?