FMLA-retaliation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-499 Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response Waived causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for summary judgment analysis and whether 'but for' or motivating factor causation applies in…
24-7067 Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund Fifth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied IFP consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre…
23-6781 Stephanie Norman v. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc., dba Moffitt Cancer Center Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination family-medical-leave-act florida-civil-rights fmla-interference fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court erred in affirming the District Court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the petitioner's entire complaint
22-7082 Crystal G. Jordan v. Atlanta Public Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights damages due-process employment-termination fmla fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation temporal-proximity workplace-discrimination Is an email proof of pretext for unlawful retaliation?
21-1315 Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness Whether the court may immunize an employer's asserted reason for termination from examination of its truthfulness by characterizing it as a 'business …
20-861 Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor Whether the lower court erred in adopting a 'sole cause' standard for FMLA retaliation claims, in direct conflict with this Court's holdings in Burrag…
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims
18-353 Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Respondent's motion for summary judgment in …