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25A916 Katrina Parker v. Rosalie Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Chief Administrator, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Application americans-with-disabilities-act commercial-drivers-license disability-discrimination essential-eligibility hearing-impairment reasonable-modification Whether a state can impose hearing-related eligibility requirements for bus drivers that effectively screen out individuals with hearing disabilities …
25-6798 Jay Pemberton v. Bell's Brewery, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-standard mcDonnell-douglas summary-judgment Whether a court of appeals may affirm summary judgment by resolving disputed issues of fact and credibility in the employer's favor based on judge-mad…
25-917 Aaron Abadi v. Anthony Stephen Fauci, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending air-carrier-access-act alexander-v-sandoval canon-v-university-of-chicago disability-discrimination private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Whether the Air Carrier Access Act creates an implied private right of action for individuals with disabilities against air carriers
25A801 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the 'Cat's Paw' doctrine establishes causation in employment discrimination cases involving disability discrimination and retaliation claims
25A805 Angeliina L. Lawson v. Jonathan D. Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application ada-removal civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction section-1443 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) permits removal to federal court for civil rights protections based on disability when a litigant alleges inability to enf…
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause Does a systemic structural defect in California courts eliminate court access and due process for disabled litigants under the First and Fourteenth Am…
25A520 Ethan West-Helmle v. Denver District Attorney's Office, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-05 Application ada-violation disability-discrimination medical-impairment professional-externship reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act protect law students with medical impairments from discriminatory treatment during …
25-471 Tami M. Dixon v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act covid-testing disability-discrimination rehabilitation-act title-vii unvaccinated-status Whether an employer's COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated employees constitutes regarding the employee as having a disability under the ADA …
25-388 Adam Pajer, et al. v. Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived ada-interpretation congressional-intent disability-discrimination judicial-usurpation separation-of-powers statutory-construction Whether a judicial conclusion that no set of facts can plausibly exist to plead under the ADA that an employer regards an employee as presently disabl…
25A363 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie…
25-5483 Z. G. v. M. C. Pennsylvania 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal Whether a judge who made stigmatizing statements about a disability contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause by fail…
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25-136 Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. Texas 2025-08-05 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in vi…
25A88 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry Whether employees without actual or perceived disabilities can recover for 'discrimination' under the Americans with Disabilities Act's medical inquir…
25-5113 Benjamin Dykman v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Seventh Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disability-discrimination eeoc-guidelines employer-responsibility institutional-liability workplace-discrimination Whether an employer at a large institution can deny and uphold workplace disability discrimination in violation of EEOC guidelines
24A1047 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-29 Presumed Complete ada-title-ii disability-discrimination due-process essential-eligibility psychiatric-exam rehabilitation-act Whether a state university may impose a mandatory psychiatric examination as a condition of continued enrollment without violating a student's constit…
24-1064 John Doe v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived ada-title-ii civil-rights disability-discrimination parent-child-rights sovereign-immunity state-court-proceedings Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit disability discrimination in state court proceedings and abrogate sovereign immunity whe…
24-975 Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Whether Title II of the ADA applies when law-enforcement officers face exigent circumstances during encounters with individuals with disabilities
24-6714 David C. Lettieri v. Joel L. Daniels, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Dismissed IFP class-of-one constitutional-claim disability-discrimination ineffective-counsel section-1985 title-42 Whether a 'class of one' claim applies under Title 42 United States Code 1985(3) and what constitutes a valid conspiracy or class animus for such a cl…
24-714 T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an 'ongoing violation' of federal law, …
24-6206 Anthony Bowden, Sr. v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process federal-employment merit-system-protection-board reasonable-accommodation Whether the Merit System Protection Board's decision discriminated against a person with a disability and disregarded Mr. Bowden's arguments due to me…
24-6151 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination injunctive-relief intentional-discrimination medical-education rehabilitation-act Whether a student with disabilities can obtain an injunction to restart medical education and whether the standard for intentional discrimination unde…
24-6012 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2024-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct Whether judicial ethics can be restored when systemic discrimination against disabled litigants occurs despite judicial immunity and potential constit…
24-6013 Sherrie Clements v. Club Space Management, LLC, dba Club Space Florida 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-compliance cognitive-disability disability-discrimination equal-protection judicial-accommodation procedural-fairness Whether courts discriminate against individuals with cognitive disabilities in judicial proceedings and fail to provide adequate accommodations under …
24-5808 Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-23 Denied IFP ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant Whether a federal judge can set a uniform national standard for ADA accommodation and preempt state court rules, and whether California courts systema…
24-400 Jennifer Tom v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment-rights ninth-circuit-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Can the Supreme Court allow the Ninth Circuit's decision to stand in a case involving termination of a disabled employee by the Social Security Admini…
24-5660 In Re Pakuja Crystal Vang 2024-09-30 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly dismissed the petitioner's constitutional claims involving civil rights violations and procedural misconduct
24A252 Sylvia E. Crane v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete disability-discrimination eeoc-complaint employment-accommodation jury-verdict protected-activity rehabilitation-act Whether the Rehabilitation Act requires a finding of disability when an employee alleges failure to accommodate and retaliation by a federal employer
24-252 Jason Doherty v. Patricia Bice, Individually and as Dean of Student Affairs for Purchase College, State University of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights compensatory-damages disability-discrimination emotional-distress title-ii Whether Compensatory Damages Available Under Title II of the ADA include Compensation for Emotional Distress?
24A210 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-discrimination medical-school professional-education reasonable-modification Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires reasonable modifications to professional school admission policies to accommodate individuals wit…
24-5181 Dale Williamson v. University of Louisville Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-compliance ada-title-ii administrative-procedure disability-accommodation disability-discrimination procedural-remedy title-ii-claim transcript-correction tuition-fees venue-transfer Question not identified.
24-5069 Phile Andra Watson v. FedEx Express Fifth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act but-for-causation causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-law motivating-factor What is the appropriate standard for determining causation under the ADA?
24-5023 Willie Edward Nichols v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP disability-discrimination employment-discrimination long-term-employment management-misconduct part-time-employment pay-cut pay-reduction retaliation vacation-pay workplace-rights wrongful-termination Question not identified
23-1247 Duncan Abraham Goldberg v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts brain-injury brain-injury-accommodation civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-law-violation federal-laws judicial-access On what grounds does Missouri continue to deny the fundamental civil rights of people living with Brain Injury in the Missouri Judicial System?
23-1140 In Re William B. Jolley 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure age-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process equal-employment equal-employment-opportunity federal-agencies judicial-review Is 29 C.F.R. § 1614 constitutional?
23-6995 Rosaura Strous v. Superior Court of California, Yuma County Ninth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process employment-law judicial-procedure sexual-discrimination sexual-harassment standing What claims did you raise to the court below?
23-1000 Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-deference benefit-coverage disability-discrimination enteral-nutrition medical-necessity medicare-act medicare-coverage organ-dysfunction prosthetic-devices secretary statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Is the Secretary statutorily authorized to deny benefit coverage for an entire group of benefits (here, enteral nutrition) which the Medicare Act reco…
23-6781 Stephanie Norman v. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc., dba Moffitt Cancer Center Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination family-medical-leave-act florida-civil-rights fmla-interference fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court erred in affirming the District Court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the petitioner's entire complaint
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) permits a plaintiff to pursue employment discrimination claims against a municipal employer when all…
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation?
23-733 Jada Ku v. Great Falls College Montana State University Montana 2024-01-09 Denied Response Waived accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process educational-discrimination equal-protection mental-health-rights reasonable-accommodation standing state-university Can the Great Falls College Montana State University discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
23A550 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination post-employment-benefits title-i Whether Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against former employees with respect to post-employment benefits earn…
23-6233 In Re Patrick di Santo 2023-12-12 Denied IFP ada-compliance administrative-hearing administrative-tribunals civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-accessibility reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations state-and-local-government-services traumatic-brain-injury Did Edward Mandlebaum and Alexandra Perez Halper f/k/a Alexandra Perez ! Cid fail to state cause of action for the relief which they were granted
23-6138 John Doe v. Community College of Baltimore County, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection higher-education mental-health rehabilitation-act standing Does Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibit federally funded colleges from forcing students off campus for being mentally ill?
23-557 Shirley Carter v. Community Living Case Management, et al. Oregon 2023-11-22 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act attendant-care-services disability-discrimination discrimination fair-labor-standards-act home-and-community-based-services medicaid medicaid-agency person-centered-plan rehabilitation-act social-security-act Whether the Medicaid agency Nullified or ignored its Federal and State statutory requirements
23-268 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether an FHAA disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reasonably known of the disab…
23-5520 Tamara Sue Harbec v. North Country Hospital and Health Practices, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process expert-testimony interpreter-access medical-care medical-malpractice medical-rights patient-care Was it constitutional to deny the right of an interpreter because of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss?
23-145 Aleksandra Shklyar v. Carboline Company Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion ada-pleadings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disability-discrimination due-process judicial-bias retaliation standing Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability-discrimination,retaliation
23A123 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability when the emplo…
23-71 City of Costa Mesa, California v. SoCal Recovery, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada-disabilities americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination fair-housing-act major-life-activities public-comments regarded-as-disabled standing substantial-limitation Can entities derive standing to sue for disability discrimination without proving their individual residents are substantially impaired?
22-1235 Brandon E. Ogbolu v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-duty disability-discrimination due-process emotional-distress felony-conduct pro-se public-interest standing sua-sponte Whether lower courts have a constitutional duty to sua sponte assess all unlawful conduct and harm to the public interest
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether COVID-19 shutdowns, along with proof of a Mental Health Disability and Reasonable Accommodations on file with the landlord, allow the tenant p…
22-1187 Julia Keller-McIntyre v. California California 2023-06-08 Rehearing ada civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-employment protected-status reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Are employers required to prohibit discrimination in the hiring process for applicants with protected status?
22-7291 Eric J. Mapes, et ux. v. Cable One, dba Sparklight Seventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied IFP accessibility court-procedure disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process federal-rehabilitation-act judicial-corruption judicial-discrimination tennessee-v-lane Where public Court employees of the lower Courts violate the Disability Rights and Federal Rehabilitation Act laws 29 U.S.C. 794 et seq. announced in …
22-979 Nicole Owens v. Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived ADA ada-amendments-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination employment-law interactive-process major-life-activities pregnancy-discrimination-act reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act When must an employee provide information to trigger an employer's obligation to provide reasonable accommodation under the ADA, Rehab Act, and PDA?
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 Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's grievance procedure claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Ac…
22-692 April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled?
22-6583 Keith Melillo v. City and County of Rice, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP arrest-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest law-enforcement standing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to be free from false arrest and the courts discriminated against the petitioner as a disabled person
22-445 Thomas P. Harwood, III v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4312 disability-discrimination disabled-veteran employment-rights escalator-principle job-reinstatement qualification reemployment service-member userra Does 38 U.S.C. § 4312 entitle a disabled service member to prompt reemployment and help to become qualified for the escalator position, or can the emp…
22-143 Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Library Montana 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process legal-representation mental-disability public-library supreme-court Can the Great Falls Public Library discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
22-144 Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower Is petitioner's reporting of misuse of 'select infectious agents' in BSL-2 lab protected speech?
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…
22-45 Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools Montana 2022-07-18 Denied civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
21-8113 Toya Gibson v. Wayfair, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation genetic-information-discrimination genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act religious-accommodation religious-discrimination wrongful-termination Whether the adverse employment action of wrongful termination in response to a dental disability, the use of genetic information to deny future FMLA l…
21-1472 Claudia J. Rohr v. Hawaii Crime Victims Compensation Commission Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied ada-amendments-act administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act board-action disability-discrimination false-evidence judicial-procedure judicial-process statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the statute of limitations accrued upon service of Commission Decision and Orders or upon first communication of the concurring vote of all th…
21-7085 Kristina Merle Larson v. American Home Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Fourth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance disability-discrimination employment-discrimination interactive-process medical-confidentiality psychiatric-disability reasonable-accommodation retaliation termination workplace-retaliation Why is it okay for the defendant to completely ignore the plaintiff's request for a reasonable accommodation?
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether a judicial court attorney is shielded from a claim that she violated a litigant's rights under the ADA by refusing to provide a reasonable acc…
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Does the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over non-diverse parties when there is no federal question?
21-1018 Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly be a disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendments A…
21-1011 Derwin Patten, et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived ADA administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination exhaustion public-entity-discrimination randolph-sheppard-act Rehabilitation-Act state-antidiscrimination-statute Does a federal statute that requires an exhaustion of administrative remedies bar a public entity discrimination claim under the ADA, Rehabilitation-A…
21-6577 Christine Kay Ostopowicz v. United Healthcare Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delays disability-discrimination due-process medical-evidence mental-health postal-delays procedural-fairness remote-plaintiff united-healthcare Why was my case previously denied without medical expertise, medical records or reports being taken into consideration even when supplied and without …
21-723 Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law Whether the United States is allowed to reduce the income of a person and then tax the income reduction of that person without due process or equal pr…
21-647 Janet Perdue v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied ada-accommodation ada-reasonable-accommodation disability-discrimination job-sharing neutral-work-rule pretext reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment us-airways-v-barnett work-rule Whether an employer's neutral work rule can trump the ADA's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation
21-570 Ralph Keller v. Chippewa County Board of Commissioners, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process individualized-assessment medical-devices reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Did the Lower Courts err in failing to recognize the discrimination against Petitioner, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilita…
21-5965 In Re Jennifer L. Kammerer 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination disciplinary-program disparate-treatment equal-protection license-revocation mental-illness professional-license professional-licensing Does it violate the Americans with Disabilities Act to punish an individual for being mentally ill by summarily revoking their professional license an…
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 Whether participation in a mandatory chore program at a student home is 'consideration' under the Fair Housing Act sufficient for the child to qualify…
21-5189 Gary Hatter v. Gloria Williams, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process housing-authority hud jury-trial pro-se procedural-due-process seventh-amendment summary-judgment 7th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled employe…
20-1763 Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text Should disability-related interference claims be analyzed as retaliation claims or under a broader framework?
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is a '…
20-7814 Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act violated sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment when it allowed individuals to sue states for denying…
20-7706 JaKara Vester v. Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. Delaware 2021-04-12 Denied IFP autism disability-discrimination disparate-treatment fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability pretext-discrimination reasonable-accommodation special-needs Whether the Fair Housing Act requires housing providers to reasonably accommodate a disabled resident's request for a fence to protect their autistic …
20-1374 CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, One, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Granted Amici (21)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-statute civil-rights disability-discrimination disparate-impact health-insurance insurance patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act rehabilitation-act Whether section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ACA provide a disparate-impact cause of action for disability discrimination, and whether such c…
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated due to the court's failure to provide an interpreter and accommodate her mental health iss…
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment be reversed due to it was granted adversely, improperly, and unconstitutional
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving Title IX discrimination in college and university disciplinary decisions present important fede…
20-6224 Brenda L. White v. Elite Beverages Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process duty-of-care employee-misconduct employer-responsibility employment-law reasonable-accommodation workplace-negligence workplace-safety Whether an employer has a duty to accommodate an employee with a known substance abuse problem
20-5779 Cynthia B. Woods v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-protection Whether the medical recommendation was approved and the living conditions of the individual were adequate
20-341 Natalie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived ada-constructive-discharge ada-essential-functions ada-hostile-work-environment ada-reasonable-accommodation ada-telework ada-undue-hardship constructive-discharge disability-discrimination essential-job-functions hostile-work-environment medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether the reasonableness standard articulated in Barnett requires that, a denial or removal of telework or other normally reasonable accommodation b…
20-5180 Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley Missouri 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal whether-the-trial-court-judge-should-have-recused-themselves
20-5147 Mitchell Taebel v. Alane Ortega, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act retaliation standing Whether a PLWHA (person living with HIV/AIDS) has a right to be free from retaliation for reporting disability discrimination under the Rehabilitation…
19-1403 Michael H. Vartanian v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived ada-anti-retaliation ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-profession reasonable-mistake reasonable-mistake-of-law standing Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law protected conduct under the stat…
19-8758 Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. California 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Question not identified
19-1356 Thomas Joseph Skelton v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act bar-admission bar-certification disability-discrimination discrimination disparate-impact intentional-discrimination mental-health-status public-entities qualified-individual reasonable-accommodations Whether Respondents intentionally discriminated against or disproportionately impacted Petitioner by denying his certification and licensure to the Il…
19-8369 LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci…
19-7941 Jane Doe v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the Second Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the reasonable accommodation reques…
19-995 Michael J. Murray v. Mayo Clinic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination discrimination motivating-factor statutory-interpretation Is the 'motivating factor' standard most consistent with the plain language and purposes of the ADA, and Congressional intent, and therefore the appro…
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
19-603 Mark Silguero, et al. v. CSL Plasma, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination place-of-public-accommodation plasma-donation-center public-accommodation title-iii Is a plasma donation center a 'place of public accommodation' subject to the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
19-549 Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scrutiny under the federal dis…
19-406 Marilu F. Touma v. The General Counsel of the Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) abuse-of-power ada ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conspiracy-to-interfere-with-civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction medical-discrimination medical-treatment Whether UCLA Medical Center violated the ADA and Civil Rights when it denied medical treatment to a disabled woman, provided substandard services, and…
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
19-5863 Crystal Biton v. United Airlines, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Dismissed IFP air-travel civil-procedure civil-rights common-carrier constitutional-provisions disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction passenger-rights standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the respondent United Airlines denied the petitioner boarding on a flight due to the…
19-5657 Heather Rogero, et vir v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP autism disability-discrimination encephalopathy federal-programs medical-causation national-childhood-vaccine-injury-compensation-act preponderance-of-evidence rehabilitation-act sequela vaccine-injury vaccine-injury-compensation Whether the child's encephalopathy was caused by his DTaP vaccination and entitled to compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Prog…
19-5359 Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act Whether defendants who have known about petitioner's disabilities status, but were intentionally indifferent and exploited the impairment of petitione…
19-5019 Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer Florida 2019-07-01 Denied IFP child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy rendered him disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's rights as a disabled individual, including his right to reasonable accommodations and equal acce…
18-9039 Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor Whether the petitioner's disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act was violated by suppression instead of protection
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Whether the state bar examination process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against a disabled veteran-examinee
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreason…
18-8477 Lester D. Fletcher v. Ashton Baldwin Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP ames-v-kansas case-remand civil-procedure civil-rights disability-accommodation-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process eeoc eeoc-v-united-airlines original-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court Does the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction allow parties to bring suit in any court with jurisdiction over the parties or subject matter?
18-1179 John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal Whether the interactive process is triggered when a University knows or should know of a student's disability, and of that student's desire to remain …
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-8315 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5-usc-2302 age-discrimination civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee in-vitro-fertilization medical-leave probationary-employment sex-discrimination termination-rights Shall the Court immediately reinstate back to work a Federal employee who was fired for an attempt to get pregnant, for being discriminated against se…
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing Whether a non-disabled plaintiff must establish a separate injury causally related to, but separate and distinct from, a disabled person's injury
18-1047 Crystal Wade v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived disability-discrimination employment-law indefinite-leave medical-leave prima-facie-case qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act workers-compensation Whether a court of appeals ruling that denied a request for indefinite medical leave as a reasonable accommodation under the Rehabilitation Act underm…
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2
18-7073 Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves…
18-715 Cynthia Carpenter-Barker v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process integration-mandate medical-necessity olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act rule-56-review standard-of-review Whether a state agency is entitled to deference of its fact opinion of medical necessity in a Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 de novo review?
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether the district court erred in denying plaintiff's claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs, its directors, the hospital staff, the stat…
18-567 Danny Snapp v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied ada ADA-interactive-process ada-reasonable-accommodation burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination employer-burden employment interactive-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment undue-hardship us-airways-v-barnett whether-employer-must-provide-interactive-process-instruction
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
18-6392 Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to $100 million in damages for violations of their constitutional rights, including due process, equal protection, …
18-6219 Melissa May v. Continental Towers Condominiums Association, et al. Kentucky 2018-10-04 Denied IFP access-to-justice accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights court-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation self-representation standing Did the state of Kentucky not facilitate discrimination of Ms. May entirely, because of her disability?
18-416 JoAnn Hatch v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived ada burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination non-discriminatory-reason reasonable-accommodation seniority-system summary-judgment Whether the trial court may disregard or ignore a party's sworn testimony concerning a material historical fact based upon contradictory inferences ar…
18-224 Luke O. Pickens v. Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center Florida 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,civil-righ ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,public-pro ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-administration law-enforcement-training public-programs reasonable-accommodation Whether 42 USC §12132 bars a state agency from discriminating against a qualified individual, perceived by the agency as disabled, by excluding the in…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing Whether a severe physical condition that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is considered a disability under the law, in conflict with othe…