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25-6528 Victor Shelton v. Department of Justice Eighth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP agency-discretion civil-rights-act department-of-justice federal-financial-assistance judicial-review nondiscretionary-duty 1. Does the U.S. Department of Justice have a nondiscretionary duty to investigate civil rights complaints submitted by complainants who allege discri…
25A673 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application citizenship-requirements civil-rights-act election-procedures ninth-circuit voter-registration voter-roll-maintenance Question not identified.
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…
25-191 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 …
25-5162 Christopher Binetti v. New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2025-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-act constitutional-equal-protection ethnic-discrimination italian-american-rights legislative-districts state-discrimination The questions presented are 1) whether the State of New Jersey, under United States Constitution, the New Jersey Constitution, the federal U.S. Civil …
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)?
24-1237 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 1. Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discover…
24-1206 Daryao Khatri v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-05-27 Denied age-discrimination causation-standard civil-rights-act eeoc-complaint personnel-actions supreme-court-interpretation Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (DCCA) and the lower courts erred on two counts: (1) by not considering the Supreme Court ruling of …
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 (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may se…
24-871 B. W., a Minor, By Next Friends M. W. and B. W., formerly known herein as Jon AISD Doe v. Austin Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights-act plausibility-standard political-viewpoint racial-harassment school-discrimination title-vi Whether a plaintiff can state a claim for racial harassment under Title VI even if the "primary impetus" for the harassment was the plaintiff's politi…
24-5885 Sherrell Dowdell-McElhaney v. Global Payments Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-act employment-discrimination protected-opposition-activity retaliation summary-judgment workplace-discrimination The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th District Court had jurisdiction over this matter, which presented a plethora of important issues, rega…
24-363 Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-counting civil-rights-act election-law mail-ballot materiality-provision voter-disenfranchisement Millions of Americans of every political stripe vote by mail in each federal election. The Materiality Provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibit…
24-357 Wei Qiu v. Scott County Board of Education Sixth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination due-process pro-se-litigant rule-59e summary-judgment 1. Can the court deny a litigant to file her 59(e) motion and sanction motion? 2. Did the court violate Qiu's Constitutional right to Due Process und…
24-5165 Leonard W. Houston, as Beneficiary of Estate of Luis Houston Sr., Deceased v. Highland Care Center, Inc., Skilled Nursing Home Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process federal-court-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant judicial-screening nursing-home pro-se-litigation resident-rights standing Whether the underlying claims of the Plaintiff-Appellant, -pro se-of dismissal of its Motion Statement of the facts lacks merit and/or similarly defic…
23-1314 Jennifer Harris v. FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act contract contractual-limitation court-of-appeals due-process intangible-damages lawsuit-filing maximum-recovery standing statute-of-limitations Whether a maximum recovery rule limiting verdicts of intangible compensatory damages should be bound by a percentage of a prior amount approved by t…
23A933 Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate 1. Whether Respondents must be enjoined from continuing to retaliate against Applicant for his religious beliefs, and subjecting Applicant to segregat…
23-6873 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied IFP arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty loress passiheOraonicac+tbroKlahoma on establish Slate laws, or did Congress eneral lauJS of Arkansas on ITIaY Z,I2% providina fine provis ► entHTea 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 1. Is it a violation of substantial rights under procedural due process of law when a district judge at the pretrial stage and subsequent circuit judg…
23-514 Kim Jackson v. Chris Dutra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law due-process judicial-system qualified-immunity standing stare-decisis Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity.
23-385 Clayton R. Hulbert, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey W. Hulbert, et al. v. Brian T. Pope Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act first-amendment notwithstanding-clause police-accountability police-activity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether any qualified immunity is abrogated by the Notwithstanding Clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which provides that individuals are liab…
23-355 Donnie T. A. M. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County Fourth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1964 civil-rights-removal district-court-remand due-process removal section-1443 section-1447d standing Whether the Fourth Circuit has appellate jurisdiction when a District Court remands a case that was removed pursuant 28 U.S.C. §1443, whereas the Peti…
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 1. Whether the States, in private suits involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their El…
23-5048 Leonard W. Houston v. Highland Care Center, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing The lower Court has not permitted the Plaintiff-Appellant, pro-se to proceed with this action in forma pruperis, and thus subject said "Motion Stateme…
22-1191 Thomas Gearing, et al. v. City of Half Moon Bay, California Ninth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Amici (1) abstention civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment forum pullman-abstention regulatory-taking takings Thomas and Daniel Gearing are categorically prohibited from building on residentially zoned vacant land that the City of Half Moon Bay prefers as an o…
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…
22-938 George Washington University v. Jabari Stafford District of Columbia 2023-03-27 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process federal-statute personal-injury personal-injury-claims state-law statute-of-limitations title-vi Whether courts should reflexively borrow the state-law general limitations period applicable to all personal-injury claims to govern any claim allegin…
22-7006 Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
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 1: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l) prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of e…
22-768 Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's "narrowed" test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, which deems as irrelevant any of th…
22-632 Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming…
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 The following Questions are to provide notice of the grounds Petitioner seeks certiorari and resolve questions of particular importance. 1. Whether p…
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 1: Whether in Title VII, Civil Right Act of 1964, prohibition of discrimination based on race, color, and national origin; an employer is de…
22-306 Lindsay O'Brien Quarrie v. Stephen Wells, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act contract-law due-process mendacity property-rights racial-discrimination standing title-vi 1. Whether ignorance of the law can excuse racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.) and theref…
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 …
22-5180 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 covers retaliation by employers against employees. The second question is: Did Morni…
22-30 David Ritter v. Linda Migliori, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-11 GVR Amici (9) civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process election election-law mail-in-voting materiality-provision mootness mootness-doctrine standing statutory-interpretation third-circuit-decision Should this Court vacate the Third Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)?
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 1. Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandate trial courts exclude comparators who received a benefit discriminatorily doled out as define…
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…
21-1353 Isabella Nartey v. Franciscan Health Hospital Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process emergency-medical-treatment medical-negligence supplemental-jurisdiction title-vi 1. Equitable Aid. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act forbids Medicare-participating hospitals from withholding or downgrading medica…
21-7377 Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings (a) WHETHER Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5th, 6th, 7th-13th and 14th to the Constitution? (b) WHETHER dismissal with prejudice of…
21-6267 Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. Maryland 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection This extreme violative case significantly challenges multiple Constitutional and Federal laws. On appeal, Petitioner presented trial court reversable …
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act 1. When there is undisputed evidence that a non-court state administrative agency lacks jurisdiction under federal law, whether the Ninth Circuit can …
21-613 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-action medical-student ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claim standing title-vi 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously determined that a student cannot state a retaliation claim under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Ti…
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based simply on an officer's failure to provide …
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-5465 Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing Does the United States District court for the District of Idaho Local Rule 342, which imposes only pro se litigants a twenty (20) page limit on civil …
21-5445 Henryk S. Borecki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 1985 1986 airline-passenger civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process self-incrimination standing travel-identification Does the plaintiffs complaint, based on Sections 1983, 1985 and 1986 of the Civil Rights Acts, state a claim for relief against both or either of the …
21-231 Julie Ellen Wartluft, fka Julie Ellen Bartels, et al. v. The Milton Hershey School, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights civil-rights-act consideration consideration-definition disability disability-discrimination fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination rental-definition renter student-housing To rent is defined in the Act as to lease or to let or otherwise to grant for consideration the right to occupy premises. 42 U.S.C. §3602(e). The Milt…
21-5374 Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination I. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 can Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch manage deny Plaintiff "access to servicing her federal home becaus…
21-165 In Re Gracie E. McBroom 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation 1. Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision in their agreem…
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 1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation. 2. Whether an emp…
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 1. Whether the six factors set forth in Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003), addressing whether director-shareho…
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 AutoZone, Defendant, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. AutoZone negligently violated EEOC Laws Under Civil Rights Act of 1964, in r…
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 Constitutional Question is the Governors Code of Conduct constitutional? 16AM Juris. 2nd Ed.Const. Law. Sect. 177 Declaratory Judgement Act Commonweal…
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 1. Applicable to the Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 or 42 U.S.C, 1981, did Plaintiff prove pretext by discrimination by showing "weakness, impl…
20-7725 Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Question not identified.
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment that leaves no discretion in the lower courts to deny a jury trial…
20-1146 Pamela Smith v. PacerMonitor, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act conspiracy deprivation-of-rights due-process emotional-distress res-judicata rule-60 standing 1. Whether the process petitioner received in this case is sufficient to satisfy the substantive and procedural due process standard. 2. Whether "R…
20-7153 Anthony Lonnie Forbes v. SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP 1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act contractual-relationship contractual-relationships employment employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act retaliation section-1981 1. Where the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits racial discrimination in contractual relationshi…
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1. Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws? a. Whistleblower Laws designed to protect the crime victim and informants. b…
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 1. Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for that individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is …
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect…
20-898 Coneisha L. Sherrod v. United Way Worldwide Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act employment employment-contract indirect-evidence interference non-contracting-party pleading race-discrimination section-1981 (1) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981") prohibits a non-contracting party from interfering with person's contract,…
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 The United States of America in 1964 decided that it is was unlawful to discriminate against another human being because of color of their skin by den…
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 1. Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41? 2. Whether the Appeals ju…
20-219 Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (4) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-law civil-rights civil-rights-act compensatory-damages emotional-distress federal-funding rehabilitation-act title-vi Whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI and the statutes that incorporate its remedies include compensation for emotional distress.
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 Weather, as the Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits have held, the Faragher and Ellerth "supervisor" liability rule (i) applies to discrimination, hara…
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?
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 (1) Whether the District Court and Tenth Circuit erred in holding that a plaintiff establishing a prima facie case and or showing pretext plus proof o…
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 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2-3) and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981) prevent discrimination and reta…
19-8202 Linda Gough v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company Fourth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-rights-act employee-classification employment-classification equal-pay-act fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor outside-sales-exemption title-vii-civil-rights-act wage-and-hour-law Whether Bankers Life properly classified Gough as an independent contractor and not an employee? Whether the "outside sales" exemption applies to Lin…
19-8174 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi 1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den…
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 1. Is the Fifth Circuit restrictive doctrine "ultimate adverse employment action ", in conflict with the protections and provisions intended by Cong…
19-1042 Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b…
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 1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend pr…
19-880 Yisrael M. Kemp v. Georgia State University Admissions Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) admission-criteria civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-1964 constitutional-law education-policy equal-protection georgia-constitution title-vi university-admission university-system-georgia Whether the Eleven Circuit Court error not to determine the equal protection clause, and the civil rights act of 1964, Title VI, authorize Georgia con…
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel's ruling invites judicial review for Petition for Writ of Certiorari where the ruling conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-6044 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts 2019-09-24 Denied IFP anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment I. As applied, does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land Subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B) (vi) ("IRC …
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…
19-5506 Darrel R. Fisher v. J. Doe Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity jurisdiction standing Can a federal court's judge just make-up his own rules that implementation of violate civil, constitutional and all legal rights and privileges protec…
19-5240 James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…
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…
18-9373 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?
18-1398 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…
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
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…
18-8637 James Paul Arlotta v. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process establishment-clause fair-hearing reverse-discrimination standing title-vi transportation-discrimination transportation-services Whether the constitutionality of an Act of Congress was properly drawn into question
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
18-923 Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are moot when no prospective…
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful under the Civil Rights Act?
18-7051 Jacqueline Lenorlia Taylor v. CVS Caremark Corporation Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-defense dismissal due-process equal-access failure-to-prosecute prejudice public-accommodations standing title-ii Did the General District Court, Fourth Circuit, err in dismissing the plaintiff's case for failure to prosecute and an impending unfavorable judgment,…
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?
18-498 Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act Whether Arizona sheriffs are policymakers for counties in law enforcement, whether policymaker liability can be applied to Title VI and § 12601, wheth…
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…
18-231 New West, L.P., et al. v. City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived beacon-theatres civil-rights civil-rights-act collateral-estoppel due-process equitable-claims fair-housing-act jury-trial parklane-hosiery When a single district court Judge has control over all legal and equitable claims before it in a single proceeding, even though the proceeding involv…
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the …