but-for-cause
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A472 | Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Presumed Complete | but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal exoneree's misconduct must be a but-for or proximate cause of prosecution to be disqualified from obtaining a certificate of innocen… | |
| 22-7185 | Brandon Scott Donaldson v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky but-for-cause civil-rights fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike pretext race-neutral race-neutral-explanation systematic-underrepresentation | Whether a peremptory challenge complies with Batson if a prosecutor voiced a race-neutral explanation for his strike in addition to pretextual, improp… |
| 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… | |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the motive was a but-for cause of the violen… |
| 18-1367 | Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability | Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation |
| 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-… |