| 25-6760 |
Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii |
Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days? |
| 25-932 |
Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment |
This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir… |
| 25-823 |
William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii |
1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu… |
| 25-714 |
Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination |
1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others … |
| 25-698 |
Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram… |
| 25A624 |
Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
|
employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii |
Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state laws that conflict with Title VII's religious accommodation requirements |
| 25A570 |
Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether a federal agency's adverse employment action constitutes unlawful retaliation under Title VII when an employee has engaged in protected EEO ac… |
| 25-526 |
Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous… |
| 25-5966 |
Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii |
1) Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, can employers demand
statements of apostasy as well as set restrictions on how an employee can
c… |
| 25-5929 |
Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii |
1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o… |
| 25-486 |
David Perez v. City and County of Denver, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedies due-diligence eeoc-complaint fraud-of-court pro-se-litigation title-vii |
On June 3, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the precondition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requiring employees to file a charge with … |
| 25-471 |
Tami M. Dixon v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act covid-testing disability-discrimination rehabilitation-act title-vii unvaccinated-status |
1. Whether an employer's requirement that an
employee undergo COVID-19 testing, based solely on the
employee's unvaccinated status, constitutes rega… |
| 25-408 |
Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii |
To Respondent Robin Shahar:
Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by
this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S.
346 (2024) applies… |
| 25-5810 |
Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii |
1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard.
Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of
employment " … |
| 25-323 |
Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii |
1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was
properly invoked involving a continuing violation
of Title VII, 1983 etc. in the underlying claims… |
| 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… |
| 25A271 |
Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
burden-shifting civil-rights employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework remains a viable standard for analyzing employment discrimination claims under Title VII |
| 25-261 |
Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
|
grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii |
1. Whether a labor organization violates Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refuses to pursue
grievances based on religious objection… |
| 25-209 |
Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii |
1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII
and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell
Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth… |
| 25-191 |
James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii |
Whether the opinion of the court of appeals below disregarding evidence of the background circumstances of the employer's bias against male employees … |
| 25-5323 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. Office of the South Carolina Governor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination employment-opportunities pro-se-petition title-vii |
I. Is a Charge filed with U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission required to bring a lawsuit in federal court against an employer(s).
II. Is it lawfu… |
| 25A142 |
Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether an employer's multiple evaluation attempts and termination of an employee after failed performance assessments constitute unlawful race and ag… |
| 25-126 |
Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary religious-accommodation scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whet… |
| 25-92 |
Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County |
Maryland |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii |
"Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P… |
| 25-58 |
Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii |
1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term… |
| 25-47 |
Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
A. Did the courts below properly apply SCDOT zero tolerance harassment policies. Title VII , EPA, ADE A, ADA, EEOC harassment & hostile work environme… |
| 25A25 |
Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal courts must apply a broad, expansive definition of religious belief under Title VII that allows for the coexistence of secular and rel… |
| 24A1295 |
Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d… |
| 24-7464 |
Shukeitha Jackson v. AbbVie, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process mental-illness pro-se-litigant title-vii |
Whether a pro se litigant with documented severe mental illness is entitled to appointed counsel in a civil rights employment matter under Title VII w… |
| 24A1207 |
Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a heightened pleading standard to employment discrimination claims in contravention of Bell Atlantic Co… |
| 24-1237 |
Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discovery, … |
| 24-1239 |
Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii |
Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an 'employee' within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)? |
| 24-7284 |
Charles L. Burgett v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the lower courts applied the correct summary judgment standard of review for prima facie and for pretext in assessing a case of employment dis… |
| 24A1096 |
Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii |
Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour… |
| 24-7098 |
Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights |
Whether Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination across all employment terms, conditions, and privileges, or are limited to significant disc… |
| 24-1049 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection rule-59e summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a Rule 59(e) motion can be converted to a summary judgment motion when evidence outside pleadings is presented and whether judicial actions vi… |
| 24-1038 |
Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii |
In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s… |
| 24-6869 |
Evelyn Thomas v. Quicktrip Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights colorism-discrimination eeoc-procedure judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice title-vii |
Whether colorism discrimination under Title VII and obstruction of justice by withholding EEOC documents constitute actionable legal claims |
| 24-1015 |
John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii |
Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may serve … |
| 24-996 |
Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii |
Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protec… |
| 24-931 |
Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship |
Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not by i… |
| 24-895 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss prima-facie-case title-vii |
Whether the district court and circuit court improperly dismissed Qiu's Title VII complaint by declining to consider her supporting email evidence and… |
| 24-896 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii |
Whether a district court can dismiss a Title VII discrimination complaint alleging direct racial discrimination without considering the plaintiff's su… |
| 24-890 |
Richard Lee Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights evidence-standard ex-parte-injunction labor-dispute title-vii workplace-rights |
Does the legal standard of evidence require a showing of imminent harm to justify the issuance of an ex parte injunction without notice? |
| 24-852 |
Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Does the Panel's ruling improperly apply res judicata to bar a Title VII claim against a school board when the claim had not yet accrued at the time o… |
| 24-811 |
Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the district court and circuit court improperly applied summary judgment standards and violated constitutional due process rights in a Title V… |
| 24-6413 |
La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit employer retaliation for employee rights assertions and protect against workplace discrimination bas… |
| 24-770 |
Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i… |
| 24-733 |
Daniel Snyder v. Arconic, Corp., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
abercrombie-standard accommodation employment-law prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii |
Whether a sincerely motivated religious expression establishes a prima facie case of religious discrimination under Title VII without additional showi… |
| 24A586 |
Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cause-of-action civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata school-board title-vii |
Whether claim preclusion principles under Taylor v. Sturgell apply to bar a subsequent Title VII lawsuit when the first civil rights action involved i… |
| 24-640 |
Patricia A. Allen v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causation-standard due-process employment-discrimination jury-instructions retaliation-claim title-vii |
Whether a trial court abused its discretion by providing jury instructions that omitted Title VII discrimination claims and applied different causatio… |
| 24-603 |
Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision regarding DEA employment discrimination claims under Title VII and discover… |
| 24-6037 |
Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination, hostile work environment, and failure to accommodate und… |
| 24-427 |
Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Relisted (5) |
burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework requires a plaintiff to disprove an employer's proffered reason for adverse employment action … |
| 24-5742 |
Jasmine Oliver v. Amazon.com Services LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
employer-liability reasonable-accommodation retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Whether an employer is vicariously liable for sexual harassment reported anonymously, whether employer liability depends on organizational size, and w… |
| 24A331 |
Patricia A. Allen v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discriminatory-animus job-assignment jury-instructions material-adversity supreme-court-precedent title-vii |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide jury instructions consistent with recent Supreme Court precedents in Muldrow and Chambers constitutes rev… |
| 24-359 |
Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
|
due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
Whether the Texas Workforce Commission's sovereign immunity bars a Title VII religious accommodation claim and violates due process and equal protecti… |
| 24-5491 |
Phile Andra Watson v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-action causation employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation title-vii |
Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed-motive standard for proving employment discrimination |
| 24-5422 |
MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance |
Whether a state employer's refusal to hire a person based on race while citing workforce racial balance concerns constitutes intentional racial discri… |
| 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… |
| 24A145 |
Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bostock-standard but-for-causation mcdonnell-douglas-framework religious-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework for summary judgment in Title VII cases improperly conflicts with the but-for causation standard established i… |
| 24-106 |
Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination |
employment-discrimination |
| 24-67 |
Tammie L. Terrell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination-in-employment-act burden-of-proof but-for-causation causation differential-treatment employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-action retaliation title-vii |
Whether differential treatment must contribute to the ultimate decision |
| 24A54 |
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago v. Janay E. Garrick |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
church-autonomy employment-discrimination first-amendment judicial-interference religious-liberty title-vii |
Whether the First Amendment's church autonomy doctrine protects religious organizations from judicial interference in internal leadership disputes or … |
| 24-48 |
Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
|
employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship |
Does an employer violate Title VII when it fails to hire a person because his sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit him from agreeing to recognize… |
| 24-10 |
Marecia Bell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-2000e-16 employment-law federal-employment pay-discrimination protected-class summary-judgment title-vii title-vii-discrimination |
Whether a failure to follow federal rules relating to pay without credible explanation that results in a protected class receiving less pay than other… |
| 23-1346 |
The Golub Corporation v. Elaine Bart |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mixed-motive pretext summary-judgment title-vii |
Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to mixed motive discrimination cases, and if so, how are the three stages of that framework to be formul… |
| 23-1347 |
Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
|
burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure
23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii |
Due process-requirements-for-service-of-process-on-foreign-defendants |
| 23-7667 |
Renee Chrustowski v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights diversity employment-discrimination harassment protected-class retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons |
| 23-7628 |
Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment |
Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority to direct and overs… |
| 23-1235 |
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
|
circumstantial-evidence comparator-analysis convincing-mosaic employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas prima-facie-case title-vii |
Whether the prima facie case and comparator analysis set forth in McDonnell-Douglas-Corp-v-Green-remains-the-correct-legal-test-in-proving-employment-… |
| 23-7368 |
Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether the respondent's termination of the petitioner for observing the Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath day (Saturday) constitutes religious-discrimina… |
| 23-1152 |
Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment despite disputed material facts |
| 23-1119 |
Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
|
adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii |
Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII and the AD… |
| 23-1039 |
Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii |
Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show 'background circumstances to support the suspic… |
| 23-1031 |
Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work-environment case and eliminate from consideration… |
| 23-1019 |
Dennis McLain v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causation-standard civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee federal-employment jury-instruction retaliation title-vii whistleblowing |
Whether the jury should be instructed on the causation standard delineated in Babb v. Wilkie for federal employee Title VII claims |
| 23A777 |
Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin… |
| 23-891 |
Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii |
Whether the Fifth Circuit may disregard the doctrine of continuing violations and instead adopt a discrete-act factor test requiring subjective intent… |
| 23A744 |
Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
academic-proceedings civil-rights employment-discrimination tenth-circuit title-vii university-liability |
Whether a university can be held liable for alleged discrimination in employment or academic proceedings under Title VII or other civil rights statute… |
| 23-836 |
Samer Ali-Hasan v. St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination termination title-vii wrongful-termination |
Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows is… |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
Are employer statements on religious discrimination binding judicial admissions in a Title VII de novo review? |
| 23-6528 |
Charles L. Burgett v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-2000e civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment-discriminat… |
| 23-765 |
Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs |
Did this violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by disparately impacting Dr. Patel and other like applicants on the basis of their national… |
| 23A647 |
Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct |
Whether Title VII permits a hostile work environment claim based on allegations of unwanted physical contact and sexual harassment by a supervisor and… |
| 23-6416 |
Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii |
Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and frau… |
| 23-728 |
Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities |
Is providing discriminatory working conditions or facilities based on race or sex an unlawful employment practice? |
| 23-730 |
Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. |
New York |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii |
Does federal law preempt New York's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral impar… |
| 23-6391 |
Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection |
Are minority males who oppose discrimination entitled to equal-protection |
| 23-6321 |
Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii |
Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re… |
| 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… |
| 23-561 |
Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity |
Does the EPA protect employees who are paid less money for positions requiring more skill, effort, or responsibility than those held by employees of t… |
| 23A468 |
Deirdre Baker v. JEA |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights-act judicial-impartiality procedural-due-process race-retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a federal district court judge violates procedural due process and judicial impartiality by relying on fabricated evidence and displaying bias… |
| 23-6009 |
Mario Austin v. American Building Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mr. Rustin's claims of retaliation and national origin discrimination under Title VII |
| 23-256 |
Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal employees' rights are determined under statutes that require all personnel actions affecting employees or applicants to be made free f… |
| 23-249 |
Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
|
anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes? |
| 23-5595 |
Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii |
whether-appeals-court-retain-authority-over-moot-claims |
| 23A224 |
Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment in a case involving allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation by… |
| 23-152 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
|
Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… |
| 23-128 |
Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
Whether the States retain their Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity in private Title VII suits |
| 23A58 |
Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii |
Whether the Railway Labor Act's mandatory arbitration requirements preempt federal statutory claims, including Title VII discrimination claims, or whe… |
| 23-5005 |
Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
at-will-employment civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination protected-class title-vii workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination |
Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally and knowingly discriminate against an employee based on race-national-origin-gender-sexual-orientation? |
| 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 … |
| 22-1217 |
Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii |
Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation |
| 22-1122 |
Virgil M. Lorenzo v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
communicative-competence discrimination litigation-barrier national-origin objective-evidence subjective-judgment subjective-judgments title-vii |
Does the reliance of federal courts on subjective judgments concerning the communicative competence of the plaintiff constitute an unreasonable obstac… |
| 22-1092 |
Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
|
employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii |
Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy-Clause, federal-laws, final-pretrial-judgment, qualified-immunity, summary-judgment |
| 22-7448 |
Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii |
Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some… |
| 22-972 |
Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii |
Whether an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination under Title VII based on a supervisor's alleged bias |
| 22-975 |
Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii |
Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex constitutes prohibited employment discrimination 'becau… |
| 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? |
| 22-931 |
Paulo K. Mwassa v. Presbyterian Homes & Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation but-for-cause civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination federal-sector-employment protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires a plaintiff to prove that retaliation for protected activit… |
| 22-923 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii |
Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an unclear Order with judicial errors that is confusing… |
| 22-892 |
Guangyu Wang v. Nevada System of Higher Education |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
|
anti-retaliation anti-retaliation-standard civil-rights decision-making due-process hierarchical-network-processing network-processing retaliation statutory-remedies title-vii |
How to incorporate a human decision-making process and the anti-retaliation standard into a hierarchical network processing model and why it matters t… |
| 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… |
| 22-6884 |
Pradheep Chhalliyil v. Foodchain ID Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination evidence evidence-gathering national-origin-discrimination prima-facie-case termination title-vii |
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination as to all terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including denial to g… |
| 22-737 |
Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii |
Whether the government's requirement that an individual possess a valid Social Security Number imposes a substantial burden on Petitioner's religious … |
| 22-627 |
Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether procedural due process under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are denied, resulting in deprivation of a constitutionally protected … |
| 22-590 |
Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii |
whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions |
| 22-452 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. |
New York |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii |
issues-being-raised |
| 22-406 |
Rafael Friedrichsen v. Jose Ramon Rodriguez, et al. |
Texas |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-right-to-jury-trial due-process eeoc rehearing title-vii writ-of-mandamus |
did-the-supreme-court-of-texas-fail-to-maintain-uniformity |
| 22-5944 |
Charles L. Burgett v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-2000e employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discriminat… |
| 22-5815 |
Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii |
Question not identified |
| 22-299 |
Trisha Doran v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination babb eeoc eeoc-regulations federal-sector federal-sector-claims honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework title-vii |
Whether this Court's rationale in Babb applies to federal-sector Title VII claims; and if so whether the McDonnell-Douglas framework has been abrogate… |
| 22-283 |
Rachel Mosby v. City of Byron, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charge-filing charge-filing-requirements civil-rights court-doctrine fort-bend procedural-requirement summary-judgment title-vii waiver |
Must a trial court apply this Court's holding in Fort Bend when a Title VII plaintiff timely argues that the defendant has waived its objection to a c… |
| 22-263 |
Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether an appellate court is required to remand a case to the district court when the appellate court determines the district court used erroneous le… |
| 22-231 |
Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii |
Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms,' 'conditions,' or 'privileges' of employment, or are they limited to 'signific… |
| 22-193 |
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-174 |
Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (57)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the Court should disapprove the Hardison test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations |
| 22-165 |
Samuel M. Howard v. Office of the Special Deputy Receiver, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-filing employment judicial-discretion standing title-vii |
Whether the District Court and Magistrate Judge did not consider all of the brief, filing, company witnesses, and business location and area |
| 22-5180 |
General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii |
Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees? |
| 21-8061 |
Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii |
Who has responsibility to inform indigent pro se complainant of right to counsel in Title VII action? |
| 21-1523 |
Wendell Tabb v. Durham Public Schools Board of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-analysis comparators discrimination eeoc eeoc-charge hishon-v-king-spalding statutory-period title-vii |
Does Title VII mandate trial courts exclude comparators who received a benefit discriminatorily doled out as defined in Hishon v. King & Spalding from… |
| 21-7896 |
Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7851 |
Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions |
Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 21-7770 |
Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva… |
| 21-1416 |
Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii |
Whether the ministerial exception applies to a lay principal who is not a spiritual leader of his religious high school |
| 21-1301 |
Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te… |
| 21-7399 |
Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit… |
| 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… |
| 21-6842 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii |
Where there exists illegal practices in the workplace by a United States federal employer Census 2020-Department of Commerce |
| 21-967 |
Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii |
Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se litigant's mistaken belief about EEOC filing requirements? |
| 21-6690 |
Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii |
Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. … |
| 21-843 |
Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii |
Where an employer must respond to complaints of sexual harassment |
| 21-6484 |
Thomas Lee Battle v. California |
California |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii |
Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prosecut… |
| 21-787 |
Gina Russomanno v. Dan Dugan, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claims due-process material-fact new-evidence res-judicata same-claim-preclusion standing title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, pursuant to res-judicata, barr… |
| 21-6400 |
Sonya R. Edwards v. Mesquite Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination procedural-waiver statute-of-limitations title-vii |
In light of the Supreme Court's holdings that an EEOC intake questionnaire may constitute a charge and a charge may be verified after the filing perio… |
| 21-744 |
William Maner v. Dignity Health, fka Catholic Healthcare West |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment employment-law favoritism gender-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii workplace-favoritism |
Where an employer allows workplace activities of ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of favoritism to occur, do such activities constitute a vio… |
| 21-733 |
Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii |
Does a petitioner who files an EEOC charge and asserts a claim of retaliatory discrimination for engaging in protected activities under the anti-retal… |
| 21-717 |
John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii |
Whether a state governor's order mandating that private healthcare employers, on penalty of revocation of their business licenses, terminate their hea… |
| 21-561 |
Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii |
At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim, must the plaintiff show 'circumstances that support an inference of discrimination' by plea… |
| 21-522 |
Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii |
Whether a claim of unlawful retaliation for filing an EEOC charge can be addressed in a civil action without a second formal administrative charge |
| 21-5824 |
Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity |
Reverse-discrimination |
| 21-5716 |
Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the district court erred and/or abused its discretion |
| 21-5643 |
Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii |
Can an employer justify zero accountability for wrongful employee discrimination with a federal policy or statute, as a loophole to pressure an employ… |
| 21-359 |
Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonnell Douglas v. Green's burden-shifting analysis is t… |
| 21-361 |
Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii |
Whether SCOTUS decisions on Eleventh Amendment, Title VII, Title VI, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, standing, Texas Tort Claims Act, and acade… |
| 21-368 |
Guy Patterson v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
non-discriminatory reason for an employment actio agency-employment-practices babb-v-wilkie civil-rights due-process federal-discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination job-related-tests non-discriminatory-reason professional-ability-standards title-vii |
Does an executive agency articulate a 'legitimate, non-discriminatory reason' for its employment action under the stricter standard applicable to the … |
| 21-135 |
Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii |
Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable-estoppel can only arise when a defend… |
| 21-5191 |
Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation |
| 21-90 |
Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii |
Whether a claim can be brought against the City of Dallas claiming sovereign immunity under the 14th Amendment and Title VII/42 U.S.C. §2000e-16(a) |
| 21-74 |
Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii |
Whether the Clackamas factors apply to whether a shareholder in a law firm may assert claims of race and sex discrimination and retaliation under Titl… |
| 21-5056 |
Arthur Vincent v. AutoZone |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discipline eeoc employment-discrimination harassment job-assignment retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether AutoZone violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through negligent harassment, discipline, discharge, job assignments, promotions, … |
| 21-9 |
Vincenza Presti v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination federal-employment retaliation title-vii workplace-discrimination workplace-retaliation |
Whether the Judicial system can be biased towards federal-employee-petitioners by denying them due-process and a hearing |
| 20-8473 |
Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii |
Whether the Plaintiff was provided notice timely of the Summary Judgement ruling? |
| 20-8375 |
Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination |
Did Geisinger Hospital discriminate, harass, and inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Jeffrey Liberto and Luisa Liberto in violation of Title VII a… |
| 20-1716 |
Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii |
Can the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Secretary of Transportation be considered 'employees' under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
| 20-1682 |
Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii |
Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action |
| 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 |
| 20-8015 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
Was decisions under Title VII also recognize that a person claiming that he has been the victim of intentional discrimination may make out a prima fac… |
| 20-8003 |
Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation
20-8002" retaliation
20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii |
Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII requires a plaintiff to prove sex was a 'motivating factor' rather than a 'but for' cause of the cha… |
| 20-1533 |
Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii |
Should Plaintiff Curry been given an Opportunity for Reemployment |
| 20-1373 |
Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl… |
| 20-1330 |
June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
Was this a coordinated effort by government employees to undermine the Rule of Law? |
| 20-1257 |
Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii |
Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s… |
| 20-7399 |
Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the summary judgment be reversed due to it was granted adversely, improperly, and unconstitutional |
| 20-7289 |
Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii |
Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the factual… |
| 20-1175 |
Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Does 'shall be made free from any discrimination' prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor? |
| 20-1103 |
Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii |
Question not identified |
| 20-7116 |
Isabel Del Pino Allen v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College |
Florida |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eeo eeoc-compliance employment-discrimination employment-termination public-institution tenure tenured-professor title-vii |
Whether Title VI and other Civil Rights and EEO-related federal decrees can be invoked by a publicly-funded college in an effort to 'jump-start' a pro… |
| 20-1004 |
Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII claim to a trier of fact |
| 20-999 |
Lloyd Industries, Inc. v. Ronald Watson |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process free-speech punitive-damages ratio ratio-analysis reprehensibility title-vii |
Should this Court grant a Writ of Certiorari |
| 20-6907 |
Dashon Hines v. TopShelf Management, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-employment standing title-vii |
Whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can pursue a Title VII disparate impact claim against an employer based on the employer's u… |
| 20-950 |
H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free-speech, whether the court misapplies the but-for causation test in a Title… |
| 20-957 |
Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii |
Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, to disclose their … |
| 20-6790 |
Mona Mustafa v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
baseless-litigation civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination harassment human-rights-act illinois-human-rights-act litigation-retaliation retaliation retaliatory-harassment title-vii |
Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for an individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is suffi… |
| 20-6627 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process employment-workforce equal-protection institutional-racism systemic-racism title-vii |
Define the purpose of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Civil Rights Act of 1991 |
| 20-813 |
James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests |
Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a 'person aggrieved' for purposes of Title VII only if … |
| 20-780 |
Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii |
Does the 'participation' clause protect an employee from a retaliatory defamation suit? |
| 20-759 |
Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii |
Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint… |
| 20-6174 |
Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii |
Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41 |
| 20-495 |
Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims |
| 20-407 |
Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim |
| 20-296 |
Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii |
Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII |
| 20-5581 |
Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-dismissal civil-rights court-of-federal-claims due-process filing-fee indigent indigent-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing title-vii |
Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII plaintiff to pay a filing fee when the plaintiff doesn't have money and is financial… |
| 20-275 |
Barrington Boyd v. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blacklisting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination expungement financial-services FINRA finra-form-u5 regulatory-action title-vii |
Whether large financial services employers should be able to use FINRA Form U5 as a blacklisting tool against former employees who raised discriminati… |
| 20-213 |
Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against employment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encompasse… |
| 20-58 |
Anita Smith v. Vestavia Hills Board of Education |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation causation causation-standard civil-rights discrimination-claim motivating-factor pleading summary-judgment title-vii |
Is a Title VII plaintiff required to meet the but-for causation standard to survive summary judgment? |
| 20-56 |
Wen Chiann Yeh v. North Carolina State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination faragher-ellerth faragher-ellerth-rule supervisor-liability title-vii |
Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to discrimination and harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority … |
| 20-27 |
Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii |
Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t… |
| 20-5102 |
Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh |
Virginia |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process |
| 20-5103 |
Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process |
| 20-19 |
Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military |
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military? |
| 20-16 |
Edward Wayne Binns v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-complaint equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances res-judicata standing title-vii |
Whether an EEOC complaint filing would be timely for a Title 7 action under Holland-v-Florida equitable tolling principles |
| 19-1461 |
Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (13) |
civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an 'undue hardship' under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-1388 |
Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) |
civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an 'undue hardship' in accommodating an emp… |
| 19-8520 |
Justin Mohn v. Progressive Insurance |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination pretext-plus pretext-plus-rule prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a prima facie case and pretext-plus proof of discriminatory animus is sufficient for discovery, summary judgment, or finding employment discri… |
| 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… |
| 19-8432 |
Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California |
California |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices |
Whether the 4th and 8th Amendment protections, as incorporated by the 14th Amendment, were violated by the conditions of confinement in California sta… |
| 19-1263 |
Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii |
Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v… |
| 19-1121 |
Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii |
Is the Fifth Circuit's restrictive 'ultimate adverse employment action' doctrine in conflict with Title VII protections? |
| 19-1109 |
Timothy C. Yoakum v. Sabre GLBL Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
|
adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights employment employment-discrimination performance-review summary-judgment title-vii |
Does the issuance of an undeserved Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and undeserved employee performance review become actionable under Title VII as … |
| 19-1089 |
Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other students? |
| 19-7730 |
Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii |
Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Montgomery County, MD Code of Human Rights were unla… |
| 19-1028 |
Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination? |
| 19-7686 |
Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection |
Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VH 42 U.S.C. 2000(e) |
| 19-7641 |
Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection |
Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote… |
| 19-7584 |
Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance |
When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County? |
| 19-981 |
Todd A. English v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adea civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process sixth-amendment standing title-vii |
Plausible-cause-for-relief |
| 19-916 |
Vernon Wendell Risby v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel due-process leosa mandamus retaliation title-vii |
Is Collateral Estoppel applicable where the prior Mandamus case dealt only with the issue of whether the Agency was obligated under LEOSA to provide a… |
| 19-745 |
Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD… |
| 19-724 |
Keith Y. Arakaki v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the four discrete events Petitioner raised in opposing Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment constituted adverse actions in accordance with… |
| 19-690 |
Tina Neville v. Janet Dhillon, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
32-U.S.C.-§-709 civil-rights conflict-of-interest dual-status-technician due-process eeoc EEOC-access feres-doctrine incident-to-service military-civilian-employment military-function national-guard title-vii workplace workplace-discrimination |
Whether the Feres Doctrine invalidates Title VI remedies for workplace discrimination experienced by a dual-status technician while performing civilia… |
| 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 |
| 19-535 |
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 |
| 19-500 |
Ameer Siddiqui v. NetJets Aviation, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
but-for but-for-test causation-standard civil-rights comparator-analysis comparators employment-discrimination pretext pretext-evaluation reasonable-inference retaliation retaliation-claims section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii |
Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the 'but for' test, or is a reasonable inference sufficient? |
| 19-6291 |
Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Firm, LLP |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment title-vii tortious-interference |
Whether District of Columbia court of Appeals can ignore instances of retaliation under Title VII and other serious violations |
| 19-6242 |
Imanol Pineda Penaloza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination question-not-identified racial-discrimination reasonable-person title-vii |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'reasonable person' standard in evaluating the plaintiff's claim of racial discrimination unde… |
| 19-446 |
VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
charge-of-discrimination discrimination-charge eeoc employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission investigation investigative-authority private-litigation right-to-sue title-vii |
Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission iss… |
| 19-269 |
Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim? |
| 19-5748 |
Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii |
When, if ever, can a magistrate judge intentionally violate FRCP 15(a)(1)(B) in denying a timely motion to amend a complaint? |
| 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… |
| 19-233 |
Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of the Sergeant at Arms 820 F.2d 490 (D… |
| 19-5621 |
David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii |
Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation and… |
| 19-186 |
Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment |
Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace? |
| 19-5541 |
Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii |
Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial? |
| 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… |
| 19-5214 |
Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii |
Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency |
| 19-5192 |
Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii |
Is a plaintiff's prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national-origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonab… |
| 19-83 |
Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii |
How does the McDonnell Douglas framework apply in a Title VII and ADEA case involving temporary employment agencies? |
| 19-5116 |
Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination |
Whether employees can be protected when an institution can formulate a false narrative for violation of company policy, even when the employee is prov… |
| 19-5119 |
Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a court can properly grant summary judgment by accepting an employer's disputed claim that a long-term, older female employee was a poor perfo… |
| 19-30 |
Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether and under what circumstances prior salary may constitute 'any other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act |
| 18-1580 |
Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii |
Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California be foreclosed as duplicative of a later-commenced 42 USC §1981 / 42 USC §1983 … |
| 18-9663 |
In Re Lorcan Kilroy |
|
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii |
Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should continue to require non-disabled plaintiffs to prove t… |
| 18-9622 |
Essie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination personnel-practices retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the summary judgment in McDaniel's retaliation claim was proper |
| 18-9593 |
Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii |
Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no… |
| 18A1236 |
Jacquelyn Johnson v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-fairness equal-pay gender-bias racial-discrimination title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Whether Title VII and federal anti-discrimination statutes provide meaningful remedies for workplace gender and racial discrimination in male-dominate… |
| 18-1473 |
Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII |
Continuing violation exception to Title VII limitation period |
| 18-9410 |
Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims… |
| 18-9373 |
David Shu v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claim due-process jury-trial-right pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal standing title-vii |
Whether a Title VII discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen has been improperly dismissed for length despite the viability of the claims? |
| 18-1442 |
Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors |
Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII |
| 18-1426 |
Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Has the McDonnell Douglas framework been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied? |
| 18-1409 |
Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii |
Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process … |
| 18-1398 |
Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-proceedings brown-v-gen-services-adm brown-vs-board chandler-v-roudebush civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claims due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-act federal-sector-employee title-vii trial-de-novo |
Did 42 U.S.C. §2000e-16(c) provide Anica Ashbourne with an unconditional right to a trial de novo on her discrimination claims filed pursuant to Title… |
| 18-1401 |
David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-1391 |
N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii |
Whether the plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York State Physicians Board was a protected activity under Title VII |
| 18-9077 |
Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination |
With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom… |
| 18-8878 |
Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii |
What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give rise to a new claim? |
| 18-1161 |
Regena Bryant v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii |
Determining whether employer's failure to rebut prima facie case of discrimination mandates judgment for plaintiff |
| 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… |
| 18-1058 |
Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii |
When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jurisd… |
| 18-1031 |
Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment |
How should a court handle an EEOC Complaint? What information should be formally on the Complaint for the court to review? |
| 18-990 |
R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii |
Whether the dismissal of petitioner's EEOC retaliation claims without allowing for agreed arbitration violates the Federal Arbitration Act or civil ri… |
| 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 |
| 18-942 |
Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer |
Whether it is a 'materially adverse action' under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re… |
| 18-928 |
Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii |
Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims |
| 18-882 |
Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Whether federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retaliation are permitted, as long as discrimination or ret… |
| 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… |
| 18-6823 |
James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii |
Was the Plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII civil rights compromised or violated? |
| 18-662 |
Mary McDonald v. City of Wichita, Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-action but-for-causation but-for-cause employment-discrimination jury-instruction jury-instructions predominant-cause retaliation sole-cause sole-cause-standard standard-of-proof title-vii |
Does a court err by instructing a jury that a plaintiff must prove that retaliation is 'the' but-for cause of the adverse action, rather than 'a' but-… |
| 18-624 |
Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii |
Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII |
| 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? |
| 18-6644 |
Jingyuan Feng v. Sheena Komenda, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination employment-discrimination,civil-rights,title-vii,p equal-employment performance-evaluation pretext retaliation title-vii |
Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions |
| 18-6517 |
Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii |
Whether the fashion industry has been exempted from the law of equal employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| 18-6501 |
Carl A. Robertson v. Interactive College of Technology, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cat's-paw-theory civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidentiary-rules mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext pro-se pro-se-litigant scheduling-order standing summary-judgment title-vii |
Should a pro se litigant's First Proposed Heightened Amended Complaint be unfairly denied by courts based on not following Scheduling Order, undue del… |
| 18-533 |
Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii |
Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the 'higher management' standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley… |
| 18-525 |
Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule |
Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit |
| 18-6321 |
Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed motive |
| 18-6022 |
Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful… |
| 18-349 |
Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se… |
| 18-5981 |
Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights |
New York |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Should the lower court have denied full discovery for the purpose of violating Title VII? |
| 18-245 |
Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii |
Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain |
| 18-197 |
E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii |
Whether Petitioner, at the time of his personal injuries, was a private citizen and not an employee subject to exclusive remedy under Title VII |
| 18-159 |
Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii |
Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o… |
| 18-107 |
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (33)Relisted (14) |
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender |
Whether the word 'sex' in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination 'because of . . . sex,' 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant 'gender identity' and inclu… |
| 18-94 |
Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discriminatio… |
| 18-5196 |
Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether filing a Title VII action to which the underlying EEOC charge failed to assert retaliation, an amended complaint allegation asserting retaliat… |
| 18-5180 |
Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii |
Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or … |
| 18-9 |
Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether strict scrutiny should apply in reviewing lower courts' dismissal of Title VII complaint alleging discrimination, unfair pay, and retaliation |