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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-713 Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?
20-6108 Antoine Washington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation Whether the 'special rule' exception to but-for causation is inapplicable to a 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) enhancement
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?
18-1185 Charter Communications, Inc. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 GVR Relisted (5) 1981 but-for but-for-causation causation civil-rights civil-rights-act editorial-decisions editorial-discretion first-amendment hurley hurley-v-irish-american motivating-factor section-1981 Whether the implied cause of action under section 1981 imposes a but-for standard of causation or a motivating factor standard