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 Does the 'depraved heart' theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's 'depraved' conduct and the victim…
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 Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the Fir…
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 Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception?
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 When does an employer cross the line from permissive but subjective request for a medical exam to an impermissible exam that evidences a perception of…
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 Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny
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 Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi…
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 Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case due to federal defendants' non-compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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 issue being raised
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?
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