causal-connection
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6638 | Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing | 1. Does the "depraved heart" theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's "depraved" conduct and the vic… |
| 23-363 | Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching | I. Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the … |
| 22-333 | U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act | (1) Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception, 29 U.S.C. § 2102(b)(2)(B)? (2) What causal connectio… |
| 22-66 | Keith Kreszowski v. FCA US, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act causal-connection disability-discrimination disability-perception job-relatedness medical-exam medical-examination pretext pretext-standard retaliation-claim summary-judgment | This case involves a consideration of issues involving claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act ("ADAAA"). The extent and abili… |
| 21-5854 | Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden | Missouri | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas | The State of Missouri is set to execute an individual whom every evaluating expert following clinical diagnostic requirements has concluded meets the … |
| 20-825 | Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 | 1. Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, a… | |
| 20-212 | Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment | 1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and the District Court erred when it affirm the motion for summary affirmance and motion to dismiss of appellee G… |
| 19-1170 | Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent | 1. If Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 12(b)(1), grants 21 days for a party to respond after being served, why would the Fourth Circuit Court uphold an allegation… |
| 19-7462 | Carol Bangura v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | appeals-court-review causal-connection civil-procedure civil-procedure-review-record-appeal-standard-of-r civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process employment prima-facie-evidence retaliation senate-employment-policy standing | Did the Appeals Court conduct a full review of the record submitted to the panel on December 2, 2019 prior to the Per Curiam opinion issued one day la… |
| 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 | I. Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII, when: There are DIRECT EVIDENCES of discrimination, including the evidence of PRE… |