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25A765 Karen L. MacElroy Zopatti v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Application ada disability-rights due-process judicial-access reasonable-accommodation title-ii Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires state courts to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled litigants to ensure meaningful acce…
24-7263 Yhanka Veras v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights disabilities-act motion-practice rule-12b6 twiqbal Whether the American With Disabilities Act (ADA) affords a litigant an accommodated plausibility standard under Twiqbal for Rule 12.b.6 motion practic…
24A751 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation Whether an employer's termination of an employee who has requested medical accommodations and taken intermittent leave constitutes unlawful discrimina…
24A210 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-discrimination medical-school professional-education reasonable-modification Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires reasonable modifications to professional school admission policies to accommodate individuals wit…
24-5390 Paulina Buhagiar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada employment-discrimination intentional-emotional-distress ninth-circuit summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment against an employee alleging workplace discrimination, retaliation, and emotional distre…
24-5135 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment ada ada-violation cares-act constitutional-violation due-process federal-cares-act federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict Jurisdiction-and-removal
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified
24A35 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-access legal-resources meaningful-access medical-impairment prison-conditions Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires state prisons to provide meaningful access to legal resources for inmates with disabilities who f…
23A1109 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-standards employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra Whether federal courts may conflate disability standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemploym…
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v Did Congress validly abrogate states' sovereign immunity for retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23A1050 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-rights medical-testing ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires private medical testing facilities to provide reasonable accommodations for visually impaired ind…
23-7320 Darrin Espinosa v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights employment-discrimination essential-functions job-performance reasonable-accommodation termination termination-of-employment workers-compensation Does a disabled person have the right to perform a job even though he does not need accommodations to perform all essential functions of the job?
23-7017 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-protections disability disability-rights due-process fair-play judicial-discrimination legal-access self-represented systemic-bias Do state and federal jurisprudence systemically eliminate rights and access to legal remedies for self-represented disabled litigants with invisible d…
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) permits a plaintiff to pursue employment discrimination claims against a municipal employer when all…
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation?
23-742 Milan Kiser, et al. v. Chris Langer Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-injury public-accommodation separation-of-powers standing tester-standing Whether a 'tester' has Article III standing under Title 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act
23-6324 Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii Did the Virginia (Defendant's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964, 1990. And, S…
23-362 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination equal-access essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation Whether the ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement is limited to accommodations that enable an employee to perform the essential functions of a po…
23-264 Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee Whether an employer's selection of the equipment used to perform a job precludes a court from considering whether modification of such equipment would…
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied IFP ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether the District Court violated ADA rights under Title II, whether the District Court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of…
23-5007 Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 Should Plaintiffs/Parents filing a Federal Complaint through IDEA Section 504 or ADA, be accorded the right to counsel when filing pro se' and/or in f…
22-1187 Julia Keller-McIntyre v. California California 2023-06-08 Rehearing ada civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-employment protected-status reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Are employers required to prohibit discrimination in the hiring process for applicants with protected status?
22-1067 Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a prisoner with a known disability…
22-7314 R. J. Kulick v. Brian T. Moynihan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act banking civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-review judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se-status standing Whether the 9th Circuit's denial of a motion for en banc review without explanation violated the petitioner's due process rights
22-979 Nicole Owens v. Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived ADA ada-amendments-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination employment-law interactive-process major-life-activities pregnancy-discrimination-act reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act When must an employee provide information to trigger an employer's obligation to provide reasonable accommodation under the ADA, Rehab Act, and PDA?
22-7118 Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to a k…
22-692 April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled?
22-638 Mary La Riccia, et vir v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights doctor-patient-relationship employment medical-care medical-communication title-i title-iii Can the restrictions placed on employees under Title I of the ADA be applied to an individual seeking medical care and treatment under Title III?
22-6279 Alex Duncan v. Jennifer R. Bartone, et al. Ohio 2022-12-09 Denied IFP accessibility ada civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was instituted with the purpose of delivering an 'equal future' for all, when in reality some indivi…
22-6236 Michele Gray v. GC Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada age-discrimination civil-rights disability-rights eeoc employment-discrimination harassment social-security wrongful-termination Is the dismissal of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security Act, Equal Employment Oppo…
22-429 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Deborah Laufer First Circuit 2022-11-08 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ada ada-tester article-iii-standing civil-rights disability-accessibility disability-rights legal-standing public-accommodation standing website website-accessibility Does a self-appointed Americans with Disabilities Act 'tester' have Article III standing to challenge a place of public accommodation's failure to pro…
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5780 James F. Snyder v. Washington Washington 2022-10-06 Denied IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing Can courts really charge a disabled man with any drug crimes when there was no drugs in any bodies' possession or on any of them?
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act Whether state legislators are immune from complying with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions Whether a law office is subject to the non-discrimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
21-8136 Dionne K. Thompson v. Morris Heights Health Center, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-discrimination administrative-determination civil-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodations state-court-system Is an Entity shielded from a claim when its agents and/or employees have clearly violated a Litigant's rights under the ADA, by refusing to provide re…
21-1426 Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
21-1384 Florida v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (1) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act authorizes the United States to sue the states in its own name
21-7688 Raleigh Rogers v. Wells Fargo Fourth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure class-action due-process individual-notice notice opt-out rule-23 wells-fargo Can the court disregard that Wells Fargo failed to provide promised next steps, failed to provide individual notice and opt-out opportunity as require…
21-1292 S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability Whether public entities can be vicariously liable for ADA-Title-II-violations
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights Whether a veteran's statutory rights under Title 38 are upheld by a state corrections department under the Supremacy Clause
21-1112 Sonya Gorbea v. Verizon New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied ada constructive-termination employment-discrimination job-abandonment pretext ptsd reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations title-vii How can Verizon's dereliction of duty and reckless disregard for necessary medical treatment be acceptable under the ADA/Title VII when Verizon refuse…
21-1105 Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services Tenth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense Whether a state is immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment in an action under the Rehabilitation Act when the cause of action is based on the st…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the lower courts erred in their analysis of the petitioner's ADA claim
21-1018 Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly be a disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendments A…
21-1011 Derwin Patten, et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived ADA administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination exhaustion public-entity-discrimination randolph-sheppard-act Rehabilitation-Act state-antidiscrimination-statute Does a federal statute that requires an exhaustion of administrative remedies bar a public entity discrimination claim under the ADA, Rehabilitation-A…
21-6545 Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches Can state actors and/or government employees violate the equal protection clause of the 5th amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA?
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims
21-671 Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualified t…
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled?
21-6055 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied IFP accommodation ada ada-accommodation civil-rights cognitive-disability due-process execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia prison-rights standing statutory-deadline What is the threshold of evidence required for a cognitively disabled petitioner to establish that his need for accommodation was obvious under the AD…
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled employe…
20-8313 Jason Hunter Bell v. Macy's Corporation Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP ada arbitration-opt-out civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment-dispute justiciability mootness motion-of-default standing Whether the plaintiff timely opted out of arbitration
20-8301 Daniel J. Heffley v. Kimberly Steele, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability disability-accommodation discrimination discrimination-intent due-process federal-court federal-court-obligations rehabilitation-act Does the Federal court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is a '…
20-7728 Keith Smeaton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel learning-disability plea-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the appellant's constitutional rights under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments were denied
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing Should the Supreme Court adopt Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports as a national standard to balance the need to deter abusive serial ADA filings with the need …
20-1357 Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 must show that the employer's failure to make the requested ac…
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-7334 Raymond E. Carr v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights employment perceived-disability record-of-disability rehabilitation-act Whether the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit discrimination against a federal employee based on the employee's perc…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Does a comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) foreclose resort to a 42…
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that the 'substantial limitation' standard requires disregarding evidence of real-world academic and standa…
20-6999 Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination Whether the panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated the petitioner's due-process, equal-protection, ada, civil-rights
20-6650 Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation Whether the public entity violated Title I of the ADA by excluding the plaintiff from participation in or denying the benefits of its programs and ser…
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Court…
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constitutional violat…
19-1476 Vantage Energy Services, Incorporated, et al. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-precedent due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intake-questionnaire iqbal plausibility-standard pleadings statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements verified-charge Whether the combination of an unverified intake questionnaire and an inexcusably dilatory verified charge meets the statutory requirements of the Amer…
19-8067 Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and mental h…
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom Whether the City's 1 % year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post-storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye and auction of Petitio…
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
19-549 Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scrutiny under the federal dis…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-406 Marilu F. Touma v. The General Counsel of the Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) abuse-of-power ada ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conspiracy-to-interfere-with-civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction medical-discrimination medical-treatment Whether UCLA Medical Center violated the ADA and Civil Rights when it denied medical treatment to a disabled woman, provided substandard services, and…
19-283 City of Trinidad, Colorado v. Stephen Hamer Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) ada ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights public-entities rehabilitation-act repeated-violations repeated-violations-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the repeated violations doctrine extends the statute of limitations for claims under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the R…
19-5517 Eric Alan Sanders v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 eeoc eeoc-charge pleading-amendment pleadings right-to-sue rule-15 rule-15(d) title-vii Whether an aggrieved person can amend a complaint under Rule 15 or supplement a complaint under Rule 15(d) after the deadline for amending pleadings h…
18-9689 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP accessibility-law ada civil-rights disability-access disability-rights due-process equal-protection federal-buildings public-buildings public-facilities reasonable-accommodation Must State and Federal Buildings be required to provide readily and reasonable access to restroom facilities to those who have a physical disability?
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-9644 Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
18-9439 Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration Seventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation Whether the state of Indiana's 'Indiana Medicaid' program violates the ADA and the U.S. Constitution against the petitioner
18-9441 Regina Lewis v. Newburgh Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accommodation accommodation-rights ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process housing-authority judicial-improvement-act judicial-procedure notice rehabilitation-act standing Did the Newburgh Housing Authority violate the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 § 112 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
18-9229 Matthew DeRyan v. East Valley School District Washington 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-protections ada-rights-violation administrative-investigation civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process false-allegations false-arrest federal-jurisdiction fraud-by-court k-12-classrooms social-security-disability standing wrongful-termination Whether the Lower courts, if in violation of Petitioner's Disability-Rights, disregarding attempts at asserting Federal-ADA-Rights, denials of motions…
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom?
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's rights as a disabled individual, including his right to reasonable accommodations and equal acce…
18-9039 Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor Whether the petitioner's disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act was violated by suppression instead of protection
18-1292 Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' by failing to address whether Doris Freyre had s…
18-1179 John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal Whether the interactive process is triggered when a University knows or should know of a student's disability, and of that student's desire to remain …
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely perfo…
18-8211 Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation Can a person's height be a disability under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213?
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing Whether a non-disabled plaintiff must establish a separate injury causally related to, but separate and distinct from, a disabled person's injury
18-8035 Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case
18-7865 Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida Florida 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order Whether the district court erred in finding that Seminole County was not responsible for maintaining the sidewalk under the ADA and Florida law
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se party's mistaken belief about filing deadlines
18-7584 Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California California 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings Whether the state's denial of petitioner's request for a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act violated petitioner's cons…
18-7368 Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the US D…
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2
18-6955 Guy W. Harrison, III v. Fulton County, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-ruling summary-judgement summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the lower courts have the authority to grant Summary Judgement when the EEOC has ruled that the Plaintiff rights were violated under Title VIF…
18-715 Cynthia Carpenter-Barker v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process integration-mandate medical-necessity olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act rule-56-review standard-of-review Whether a state agency is entitled to deference of its fact opinion of medical necessity in a Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 de novo review?
18-567 Danny Snapp v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied ada ADA-interactive-process ada-reasonable-accommodation burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination employer-burden employment interactive-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment undue-hardship us-airways-v-barnett whether-employer-must-provide-interactive-process-instruction
18-6446 Juliette Fairley v. PM Management - San Antonio AL Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP 5th-circuit ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing civil-rights civil-rights-statute diversity-jurisdiction public-accommodation rule-19 standing Did the 5th Circuit err in finding that Appellant Juliette Fairley failed to state a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 2000a, or 42 U.S.C § 12182, whe…
18-416 JoAnn Hatch v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived ada burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination non-discriminatory-reason reasonable-accommodation seniority-system summary-judgment Whether the trial court may disregard or ignore a party's sworn testimony concerning a material historical fact based upon contradictory inferences ar…
18-393 Aura Moody v. National Football League Second Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower courts properly followed statutory and constitutional requirements in dismissing the complaint
18-305 Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix Whether plaintiff has a right to redress discrimination and retaliation under Title IX or other policies and statutes
18-5853 Dorothy Binns v. City of Marietta, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Lower Courts violated any of these or other pertinent Laws, or rules, Overlooked, misapplied, neglected or made any vital legal errors in …
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing Whether a severe physical condition that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is considered a disability under the law, in conflict with othe…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of 'religious institution' in the ministerial exception require a faith-based institution with a hierarchy of ministers?
18-5077 Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act Did the trial court and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismiss the case brought by a physically impaired inmate seeking accommoda…