comparator-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6273 Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending IFP comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination stray-remarks summary-judgment supervisor-bias Whether the Fifth Circuit's rigid, four-part test for dismissing discriminatory remarks as legally irrelevant "stray remarks" unless made by a final d…
25-33 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation Whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts that establish a prima facie case of discrimination; whether c…
24-546 Karin Weng v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2024-11-15 Denied Response Waived comparator-evidence disciplinary-charges due-process employment-discrimination pretext summary-judgment Whether a plaintiff must demonstrate comparators are 'nearly identical' or merely 'similarly situated' in employment discrimination summary judgment p…
23-597 Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest Whether the Nieves probable cause exception requires identifying comparator arrests
21-138 Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim Whether comparator evidence can support an inference of discrimination if the plaintiff and comparators do not share the same position, duties, and su…
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 Pretext-by-discrimination
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
19-1238 Lisa L. Watson v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response Waived adverse-action adverse-employment-action agency-action civil-rights comparator comparator-evidence discriminatory-termination due-process employment hipaa-compliance performance-improvement-plan prima-facie-case Question not identified
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review Did the First Circuit Judge err and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary perio…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…