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25-6360 Fatima Touijer v. Providence Housing Authority, et al. Rhode Island 2025-12-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-authority Whether Rhode Island state courts improperly treated federal civil rights discrimination claims as a routine landlord-tenant dispute and failed to adj…
25-480 Karim Annabi v. New York University Second Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied alumni-benefits breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-rights discrimination university-obligations Do university graduates have a contractual right to alumni benefits promised to them as paying students, or are these promised benefits 'gratuitous' a…
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
24-1298 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2025-06-24 Denied booz-allen-hamilton civil-rights discrimination fbi-collusion federal-government judicial-interference Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect a corporation from liabi…
24A1238 M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act discrimination law-enforcement mental-health-crisis reasonable-accommodation use-of-force Whether the use of force by law enforcement against individuals experiencing mental health crises violates the Americans with Disabilities Act's prote…
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)?
24-7223 Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court Question not identified.
24-7095 Javier Lopez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
24-6812 David C. Lettieri v. Broome County Humane Society, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination imminent-danger legal-standing statutory-interpretation Does discrimination and animal killing constitute 'imminent danger'
24-6650 Abdullah Sall v. Sarah Fair George, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion by applying improper legal standards and hastily resorting to summary judgment to deny a claim of con…
24A664 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete civil-procedure constitutional-claims discovery-rights discrimination due-process rule-12b6 Whether the district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) and denial of discovery rights violated the plaintiff's constitutional due process protecti…
24-5682 Lan Thi Tran Nguyen v. Kathryn Luebcke, et al. California 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-protection discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation real-property Whether a pro se litigant's consumer protection rights were violated in a real property dispute involving alleged judicial misconduct and discriminati…
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 Whether a federal court violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by denying her Rule 59(e) motion and sanction motion without proper justificat…
24-290 Rahul Manchanda v. Abigail Reardon, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination ethnic-discrimination legal-complaint minority-rights racial-bias Whether a racial, ethnic, and religious minority can file civil rights lawsuits alleging discrimination without being labeled as racist or antisemitic
24A200 United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan Fifth Circuit 2024-08-23 Presumed Complete discrimination federal-tort-claims-act intentional-tort mail-delivery postal-matter-exception sovereign-immunity Whether the postal-matter exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity applies to intentional, discriminatory acts of mail …
24-5262 Stephen Tripodi v. David Fero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process expert-witness medical-malpractice pro-se-litigant veterans-affairs Whether the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of summary judgment against a pro se litigant for failing to produce expert witnesses, when such witnesses are…
24-123 Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 Tenth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation Question not identified
24-112 Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether district courts may make factual and credibility determinations, weigh the evidence, and refuse to credit circumstantial evidence of discrimin…
24-49 James E. Hitch v. The Frick Pittsburgh Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied adverse-action burden-of-proof causation civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment employment-law retaliation Whether James E. Hitch has proven a claim for retaliation under the 'but for' causation test?
23-7617 Andrew Nguyen v. AT&T Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equipment-allocation hotline-complaint performance-review racial-bias retaliation tool-access workplace-retaliation Upfront access to order tools and materials
23-7621 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure discrimination discrimination-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test reeves rule-52 rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's holdings
23-7531 Tiffany P. Range v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-representation pro-se settlement sexual-harassment standing How can I settle out with the courts or negotiate an agreement to be made whole?
23-1221 Carlos A. Williams v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-service-reform-act discrimination due-process federal-employment merit-system-protection-board merit-systems-protection-board prohibited-personnel-practices statutory-protections Whether a federal court lacks jurisdiction over a federal employee's complaint when the court has been made aware by the employee he had not been appr…
23-7282 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violations deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-misconduct Whether federal courts can take serious civil rights violations as frivolous
23-7240 In Re Patrick Christian 2024-04-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanction…
23-1119 Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII and the AD…
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-7079 Santiago Mason Gomez v. Odunay O. Kuku, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights retaliation standing supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right to free …
23-1039 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show 'background circumstances to support the suspic…
23-1019 Dennis McLain v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response Waived causation-standard civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee federal-employment jury-instruction retaliation title-vii whistleblowing Whether the jury should be instructed on the causation standard delineated in Babb v. Wilkie for federal employee Title VII claims
23-997 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-12 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination legal-standing post-employment-benefits standing workplace-discrimination Does a former employee have a right to sue over discrimination with respect to post-employment benefits under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-984 Joseph Dixon v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response Waived arbitration-appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing Whether the district court improperly denied Petitioner pro se due process and equal protection of law
23-6832 Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing Whether an off-duty officer qualifies for qualified-immunity
23-911 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution permit race retaliation claims?
23-891 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii Whether the Fifth Circuit may disregard the doctrine of continuing violations and instead adopt a discrete-act factor test requiring subjective intent…
23-6537 Gregory Steshenko v. Foothill-De Anza Community College District, et al. California 2024-01-23 Denied IFP ostensibly justified by business necessity violated the constitutional equal-protection business-necessity civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection public-education public-interest standing Whether permission of discrimination in public education against the protected classes
23-782 Kent Thomas Warren v. Department of Education Tenth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights department-of-education discrimination due-process federal-financial-assistance legal-mandate loan-default non-discrimination student-loans Is the U.S. Department of Education lawfully permitted to mandate payment on student loans taken by a student when non-discriminatory conditions for f…
23-6463 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-01-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights clearance-system constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeo-records employer-discrimination retaliation sixth-amendment standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1680 which was about MDA COC's and MDA's Aiding And Abetting Employer Discrimination
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Whether a retaliation claim based on objecting to a discriminatory event can be brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment …
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional?
23-6373 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employer-discrimination equal-protection retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1678
23-6372 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1698
23-6371 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights clearance-system constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-suppression obstruction-of-justice sixth-amendment Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1695
23-6253 Larry D. Ford v. American Homes 4 Rent, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent due-process fair-housing-act housing housing-providers statutory-interpretation tenant-discrimination tenant-liability third-party-liability Whether discriminatory intent is required for liability under the Fair Housing Act Sections 3604(b) and 3617
23A523 Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights discrimination lulac minority-representation naacp voting-rights Whether local civil rights organizations have standing to challenge voting restrictions that potentially discriminate against minority voters
23-598 Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity Does the Fourteenth Amendment amend the Eleventh Amendment?
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
23-6021 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Boston Housing Authority, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation rule-12 rule-70 rule-8 rule-9 standing Whether Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 12(b)(6), Rule 8(a)(2), Rule 9 are an adequate basis to dismiss the petitioner's complaint?
23-487 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants' contractual dues is discriminatory?
23-5932 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox Does the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for only some) violate the Constitution?
23-449 Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-agency-misconduct federal-employment hiring-process initial-appointment military-service-rights veterans-preference When federal agencies violate veterans' preference laws in initial employment decisions, are their actions motivated by hostility towards military ser…
23-5897 Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i…
23-5650 Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process national-security public-interest rule-of-law standing title-ix whistleblower-protection Whether the illegal denial of 'Due Process' to Petitioner and the harm being persistently inflicted upon him, violates the rights promised by the U.S.…
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied IFP ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-5543 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of …
23-5328 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process evidence-withholding retaliation security-clearance sixth-amendment-rights standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5329 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-records adverse-action civil-rights discrimination discrimination-complaint due-process equal-employment-opportunity evidence-withholding retaliation sixth-amendment wrongful-termination Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
23-5267 Dana Lunn v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing Why was my case dismissed without my knowledge?
23-5134 Kenan Allen v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-supremacy discrimination due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the U.S. Constitution must be addressed
23-5100 Vassil Marinov v. FCA US LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fair-trial pro-se religious-freedom standing Is it constitutional for a court to dismiss a case seeking to restore constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom due to procedural issues with the …
22-7813 Toby Ray A. McKenzie v. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Kentucky 2023-06-16 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing family-status housing-discrimination judicial-misconduct landlord-tenant retaliation Is unfair housing now legal in the state of Kentucky where single fathers can be singled out and discriminated against by their landlords due to their…
22-1193 Jeffry Thul v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection expedited-proceedings federal-employees federal-employment post-traumatic-stress-disorder service-of-process Whether service of process is relevant in a psychological disability case
22-1137 Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived cancel-culture civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-action due-process equal-protection ethnic-holiday executive-order injury-in-fact redressability standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit
22-1122 Virgil M. Lorenzo v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Ninth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response Waived communicative-competence discrimination litigation-barrier national-origin objective-evidence subjective-judgment subjective-judgments title-vii Does the reliance of federal courts on subjective judgments concerning the communicative competence of the plaintiff constitute an unreasonable obstac…
22-1083 Kent Chandler, in His Official Capacity as Chairman and Commissioner of Kentucky Public Service Commission, et al. v. Foresight Coal Sales, LLC Sixth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coal-severance-tax discrimination dormant-commerce-clause economic-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation utility-costs utility-regulation Does a Kentucky law that directs a state agency not to consider any jurisdiction's coal-severance tax in assessing the reasonableness of a utility com…
22-960 Christen Robinson Kelley v. Catherine Howden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights discrimination mixed-motive retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Did the District Judge err in granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's claims?
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…
22-931 Paulo K. Mwassa v. Presbyterian Homes & Services Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied but-for-causation but-for-cause civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination federal-sector-employment protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires a plaintiff to prove that retaliation for protected activit…
22-6996 Candace Searcy v. Orchard National Title Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-rights default-judgment discrimination due-process housing housing-discrimination human-rights procedural-rules race-discrimination texas-rules-of-civil-procedure Why am I being denied housing because of my race being an African American?
22-6934 Jack V. Smalley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis discrimination discriminatory-purpose due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenge voir-dire Does a comparative-juror analysis on a Batson claim depend on the reasons a party actually gave for exercising a peremptory challenge, or does it exte…
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 Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination as to all terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including denial to g…
22-779 Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discriminatory intent other than racial bias be actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3)
22-6742 Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression Whether the Connecticut Department of Corrections' policy of prohibiting incarcerated Catholics/Christians from openly displaying religious articles s…
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?
22-6577 Marcus Brent Fields v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process housing-policy medical-ethics prison-conditions prisoner-rights segregation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was injected with the harmful Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine against his will
22-6549 Anne Marie Jordan v. Historic Log Cabins, Inc., et al. South Dakota 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-judicial-misconduct democracy-preservation discrimination fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct misapplication-of-federal-law misapplication-of-state-law state-law-discrimination supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address issues of criminal judicial misconduct, fraud on the court, and the misapplication of fed…
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-6375 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee First Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process nationality pro-se pro-se-litigant religion Whether the circuit court of appeal erred in allowing the respondent to violate the petitioner's constitutional rights due to discrimination based on …
22-6336 James C. Tate v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union Local 8363 Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim district-court-discretion due-process employment-law standing summary-judgment summary-motion union-representation Did the District Court's discretion deny the petitioner due process?
22-6299 Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied IFP administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with …
22-6287 Ashley Y. (Yoo Hyang) Kim v. Public Schools of Brookline, et al. First Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment fourth-amendment legal-representation privacy-rights school-search student-surveillance termination Whether the petitioner's termination from employment was unlawful due to discrimination based on nationality, age, gender status, and lack of legal re…
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case Did the lower court err in issuing a directed verdict when a prima facie case of discrimination was established?
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2022-11-15 Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii issues-being-raised
22-5800 Collin Kaiser v. Sue Krecko, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bribery civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-housing ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice-insurance obstruction-of-justice public-corruption Whether there was public corruption, judicial misconduct, and bribery within the Eastern District of New York Central Islip Federal Courthouse and the…
22-303 Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights cover-up discrimination due-process federal-employment judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-petition standing Whether the Supreme Court should intervene to reverse the district court's orders that denied discovery, depositions, hearings, and investigations int…
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
22-165 Samuel M. Howard v. Office of the Special Deputy Receiver, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-filing employment judicial-discretion standing title-vii Whether the District Court and Magistrate Judge did not consider all of the brief, filing, company witnesses, and business location and area
22-5423 Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro…
22-5220 Palani Karupaiyan v. Jatinder Singh, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-statutes intellectual-property procedural-error standing tax-evasion USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error
21-1597 Seyed Mohsen Sharifi Takieh v. Banner Health, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied 12(b)(6)-motion civil-rights discrimination due-process medical-board-investigation pleading-standards race-discrimination race-neutral-explanation standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the District Court properly incorporated the Ruling in the State Court Injunction Action on a 12(b)(6) M…
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 Does Title VII mandate trial courts exclude comparators who received a benefit discriminatorily doled out as defined in Hishon v. King & Spalding from…
21-1506 Christine M. Owen v. Liberty University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-funding institutional-accountability public-private title-ix Whether students at private colleges and universities are entitled to the same contractual, due-process, constitutional-rights, title-ix, equal-protec…
21-8022 William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until defend…
21-1499 Mahesh Ramchanndani v. Sunil Gahdhi, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-law federal-statute property-rights racial-discrimination security-deposit standing tenant-rights Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1982 for failure to state a claim
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…
21-1433 Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a local '…
21-7846 Jose L. Arroyo-Garcia v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection exceptions indictment-amendment legal-discrimination state-court state-courts Does the Due Process Clause tolerate invidious discrimination by way of a state court's denial of a well-established exception to the rule?
21-7736 Bertha Montes de Oca v. Park Way Baptist Church Florida 2022-04-28 Denied IFP baptist-church civil-rights complots conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-justice discrimination due-process government-agencies legal-proceedings murder-case Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated through a conspiracy and complots by the Park Way Baptist Church and government agencies
21-1384 Florida v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (1) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act authorizes the United States to sue the states in its own name
21-7614 Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender?
21-1288 Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by providing voter-registration-lists …
21-7208 Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix Whether the underlying case presents one or more Questions of Fact for a jury; and, if no, Whether the case presents one or more cognizable claims tha…
21-7166 Mustafa Ozsusamlar v. P. Adams, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights discrimination due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-prison free-speech habeas-corpus postal-service prisoner-litigation standing Whether the prison's practice of opening, reading, and forwarding legal mail to the warden or unit manager, which delays or destroys the mail, violate…
21-1147 Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-extortion self-representation self-represented-litigant standing Can a judge ignore a party's challenge to his impartiality, maintain jurisdiction and abuse his adjudicative authority to extort the challenging party…
21-1142 James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 Does Section 230(c)(1) preempt discrimination claims against an interactive computer service?
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the lower courts erred in their analysis of the petitioner's ADA claim
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar Whether the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims
21-1046 Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University Second Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination legal-review membership-selection race sex standing title-ix title-vi Should the Court summarily reverse the court of appeals' holding that FASORP failed to allege standing in its amended complaint?
21-6943 Ms. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Maryland 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-separation child-welfare discrimination due-process family-law judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-discrimination parental-rights Whether the Montgomery County and Appeal Courts erred in not considering the fact that the petitioner had been mentally stable for 4 years
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
21-907 Kenda R. Kirby v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process educational-amendments non-discrimination retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Plaintiff has a right to redress under Title IX or other policies and statutes
21-6548 James Calhoun-El v. Maryland Maryland 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights comparative-treatment constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-precedent relief-standards standing Whether the lower courts violates the equal protection clause
21-850 Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection gender-classification gender-discrimination government-interest governmental-interest moral-sensibilities tailoring Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-bas…
21-6484 Thomas Lee Battle v. California California 2021-12-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prosecut…
21-787 Gina Russomanno v. Dan Dugan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claims due-process material-fact new-evidence res-judicata same-claim-preclusion standing title-vii Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, pursuant to res-judicata, barr…
21-748 Chinyere U. Nwoke v. University of Chicago Medical Center Seventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination district-court due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-review motion-to-amend pay-equity standing university-employment Whether the lower courts judged Petitioner's claims correctly
21-6287 Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines Whether U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio…
21-611 Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place
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…
21-561 Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim, must the plaintiff show 'circumstances that support an inference of discrimination' by plea…
21-5983 Jennifer L. Kammerer v. State Bar of California California 2021-10-15 Denied IFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights discrimination equal-protection mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination professional-license professional-licensing rehabilitation-program Does the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit punishing an individual for being mentally ill by revoking their professional license and denying th…
21-5926 Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment Whether the presence of defendants' recorded slurs is indispensable for a discrimination case or if ample evidence of discriminatory actions is suffic…
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory …
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-5696 Fan Gu v. Invista S.A.R.L. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contempt discrimination due-process fifth-circuit-review forgery judicial-misconduct perjury pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in claiming that the claims are barred by Res Judicata
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco…
21-333 Amro Elansari v. Maite Ragazzo, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection medical-marijuana pennsylvania standing state-law Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
21-278 John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a dis…
21-5473 Jameson Rosado v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-service retaliation Whether Jamie was ordered for the FFD to ultimately have him removed from federal service in retaliation for pursuing prior EEO activity
21-5351 Chauntel Jackson v. Transportation Security Administration Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation standing Whether the discrimination and retaliation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 constitute a violation of due process, and whether there is a right-to-s…
21-177 Danos Kallas v. Theresa L. Egan, Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection information-sharing low-threshold-offenses police-community-relations public-perception-of-police Whether the civil enforcement system should be modified
21-140 Rosemary Garity v. APWU National Labor Organization Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination circuit-court-conflict circuit-courts civil-rights discrimination due-process precedent precedent-interpretation pro-se-considerations summary-judgment union-liability Is 'But for' the standard for ADA discrimination claims?
21-90 Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii Whether a claim can be brought against the City of Dallas claiming sovereign immunity under the 14th Amendment and Title VII/42 U.S.C. §2000e-16(a)
20-1797 Fedie R. Redd v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination disparate-impact fair-housing-act foreclosure housing-discrimination mortgage-lending property-rights Did the respondents engage in discriminatory practices that had a disparate impact on Black Americans under the Fair Housing Act?
20-8375 Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination Did Geisinger Hospital discriminate, harass, and inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Jeffrey Liberto and Luisa Liberto in violation of Title VII a…
20-8301 Daniel J. Heffley v. Kimberly Steele, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability disability-accommodation discrimination discrimination-intent due-process federal-court federal-court-obligations rehabilitation-act Does the Federal court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
20-1720 Joanne Taylor-Cotten v. District of Columbia Public Schools District of Columbia 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-law impact-process retaliation Whether the district court erred in holding DCPS and OFA for violation of the IMPACT process by no providing Staff development
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action
20-8107 Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference Did the petitioner seek to get appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor
20-8015 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii Was decisions under Title VII also recognize that a person claiming that he has been the victim of intentional discrimination may make out a prima fac…
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII requires a plaintiff to prove sex was a 'motivating factor' rather than a 'but for' cause of the cha…
20-1533 Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2021-05-04 Denied civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii Should Plaintiff Curry been given an Opportunity for Reemployment
20-7925 In Re Clement Mosseri 2021-05-04 Denied IFP court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias legal-representation pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel unbiased-tribunal Is petitioner entitled to a fair hearing before an unbiased tribunal?
20-1502 Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law Whether 49 U.S.C. § 44092(b) preempts 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claims
20-7875 Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems Eighth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment Whether the Supreme Court will authorize the release of Petitioner's 'complete' Personal File to determine the reason and legitimacy of job terminatio…
20-1408 Keith Fernandez v. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-dismissal academic-fellowship breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights contract discrimination due-process education ethnicity-discrimination federal-precedent standing Breach-of-contract-and-ethnicity-discrimination
20-7670 Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Question not identified
20-1365 In Re Arno P. Kuigoua 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's appeal from summary judgment when the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, i…
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does 'shall be made free from any discrimination' prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor?
20-1087 Leonard Hartford Tunnell v. Public School Retirement System of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination erisa government-retirement-system government-retirement-systems retirement-equity-act spousal-rights Whether the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 protects the spousal rights of spouses of government retirement system members, including teachers, military…
20-7061 Frank Durand Tomlin v. Todd E. Ishee Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment basic-human-needs civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection prison-conditions public-policy standing Does prison officials' issuance of hygiene and cosmetics that do not work to prisoners constitute deprivation of a basic human need objectively suffic…
20-7004 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review standing stare-decisis state-agency Can the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny Petitioner judicial review of Respondent state agency's lack of probable cause disposition on a civil-rights …
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
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 Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for an individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is suffi…
20-820 Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Second Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness Whether the court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint without providing proper notice and opportunity to be heard
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 Define the purpose of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Civil Rights Act of 1991
20-6595 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Salem United Methodist Church, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-10 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP baptism baptismal-practices church-membership civil-rights discrimination due-process pastoral-authority procedural-fairness religious-discrimination united-methodist-church why-was-my-membership-terminated
20-6477 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh…
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred
20-641 LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC v. Katie Sieben, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause electric-utilities electricity-transmission interstate-commerce market-preference state-law state-regulation transmission-lines Whether a state law that grants an express preference to entities with an existing in-state presence to build facilities serving a distinctly intersta…
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws
20-6203 Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Alaska 2020-11-03 Denied IFP administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing Question not identified
20-6158 Clara Lewis Brockington v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP discrimination due-process education-requirements employment-termination equal-protection master's-degree test-administration workers-compensation workplace-discrimination why-was-plaintiff-terminated-from-employment
20-435 Walton B. Campbell v. Ryan D. McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Fourth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-employment national-security retaliation security-clearance standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit correctly held, contrary to decisions of the D.C., Third, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that this Cou…
20-441 Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-06 Denied commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are com…
20-407 Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim
20-373 Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to argue that the behavior of the Commission on Judicia…
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-5484 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. J. C. Smith, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fifth-amendment parole parole-revocation retaliation supervisory-liability Whether Petitioner's claims that his parole was revoked due to invoking his Fifth Amendment Right to refuse to incriminate himself could establish Sup…
20-5406 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process executive-committee federal-judges judicial-harassment judicial-misconduct judicial-order mandamus-petition race religion retaliation Whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner is legal
20-5277 Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in d…
20-5043 Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff's employment was unlawful due to language barriers and lack of due process
19-8888 Henry Oviedo v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority District of Columbia 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination eeoc-guidelines employment-discrimination hiring national-origin protected-class protected-status qualifications reasonable-employer title-seven workplace-discrimination Whether a factfinder can conclude that a reasonable employer would have hired the protected plaintiff who was significantly better qualified, but this…
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…
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian …
19-8458 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Phillip Jordan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection public-accommodations race-discrimination standing Whether the petitioner's complaint of discrimination based on race, color, religion, familial status, and/or national origin was sufficient to survive…
19-1251 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law
19-8122 Allan Widdifield v. Kevin Mazza, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights discrimination due-process habeas-corpus kentucky legal-resources time-limits Why are the United States District Judges for Kentucky in total disarray with the other Judges in the 6th Circuit concerning the AEDPA's time limits f…
19-8007 Gwendolyn Gabriel v. Merry Outlaw Texas 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice partnership-law perjury sexual-harassment standing Whether the Seventh Amendment Right to a Jury Trial protects against biased and corrupt judges
19-7966 Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb Ninth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the courts violated the 14th Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection clauses?
19-7937 Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa…
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom Whether the City's 1 % year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post-storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye and auction of Petitio…
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Montgomery County, MD Code of Human Rights were unla…
19-7708 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-employment-opportunity hate-crimes retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-reprisal Why the Federal Agencies and the Intelligence Community (IC) are allowed to abuse and torture the aggrieved Petitioner to death
19-7686 Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VH 42 U.S.C. 2000(e)
19-7642 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence federal-evidence judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court standing Were petitioner's due-process rights denied, since she is a female, and an applicant?
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…
19-998 Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied a 'deemed credible' approach to viewing a movant's credibility and arbitrarily excluded admissions of dis…
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-7496 Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion Whether the right to an impartial jury was violated by the systematic exclusion of male venirepersons
19-7466 In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez 2020-01-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu…
19-7295 Robert W. Johnson v. Nationwide Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-crimes corporate-policy discrimination driver-records due-process federal-crimes federal-insurance-crimes insurance insurance-claim investigative-misconduct irs-tax-fraud monetary-relief standing Did Nationwide Assurance Clemency revoke eligibility of Corporate Policy #658029-GE (020560) for Progressive Corporation?
19-7158 Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC Second Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote
19-815 Lisa M. Phoenix v. Regions Bank Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied applicant-definition circuit-conflict consumer-financial-protection-bureau credit-discrimination discrimination equal-credit-opportunity-act federal-reserve-board federal-reserve-system guarantors regulatory-interpretation Whether the regulations issued by the Board and the CFPB permissibly construe the 'applicants' protected from discrimination by ECOA to encompass guar…
19-6943 Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment Whether the Jistia Couvt Cured Mol ding | Heat Curnningham Failes to prvite evidence of racial diSciminaton
19-636 Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-18 Denied Response Waived agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the USDA and Epiq to afford women and Hispanic claimants access to a remedial claims framework, but bar Black m…
19-6598 Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin Oregon 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
19-6494 Sandra J. Staten v. D.R. Horton Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credit-opportunity-act discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination racial-discrimination veterans-benefits veterans-rights Whether due process was afforded to the Petitioner
19-6386 Xue Jie He v. Guttenberg NJ Police, et al. New York 2019-10-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-with-constitution conspiracy-against-rights deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection legal-procedure state-court-orders Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals Ordered directly conflict with the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth…
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional
19-380 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation Whether a federal court may grant relief from judgment under Rule 60(b) for legal error
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to terminate an at-will employee for filing a harassment complaint?
19-6007 Natasha DeLima v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fiduciary-duty judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Why did so many partake in Obstruction-of-Justice on the Petitioner?
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court
19-5809 Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat…
19-254 Jorel Shophar v. Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied constitutional-rights discrimination domestic-abuse false-allegations fathers-rights judicial-fairness legal-discrimination parental-rights procedural-justice strategic-legal-defense Are parental rights of fathers being treated as inferior to mothers?
19-5616 Russell Rope v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-integrity legal-standing pro-se-litigation standing Whether the law extends to all citizens & corporations in modern times
19-5598 Wade Hampton Bigelow, aka Ray Ford Gore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competence-to-stand-trial competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health mental-health-records psychiatric-evaluation Whether the District Court failed to rule consistent with the Insanity Defense Reform Act
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace?
19-5484 Geoff Edwin Murphy v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP attempted-homicide constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process federal-claims forfeiture jury-instructions legal-procedure state-court-rule state-trial-court Whether the state trial court deprived the petitioner of his right to due process by instructing the jury on justifiable attempted homicide
19-123 Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Judgment Issued Amici (87)Relisted (7) circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim
19-5192 Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii Is a plaintiff's prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national-origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonab…
19-15 Bank of Louisiana, et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-court federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing Where does one seek judicial review in a case alleging discrimination, neither on merits nor on a procedural ground, but for lack of jurisdiction?
18-9778 Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides Petitioner relief for discrimination in a US visa application
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
18-9704 Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance Did the lower courts erroneously decide in favor of a governmental agency that broke a contract between a Black American citizen and that agency?
18A1340 Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. Florida 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause are violated when state courts fail to prov…
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof Whether mere statistics are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination
18A1303 Dolores R. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete child-custody discrimination due-process ineffective-counsel juvenile-court procedural-fairness Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a child custody termination where a parent alleges ineffective assistance of counsel, procedural i…
18-9621 David Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-prohibition due-process human-rights human-rights-declaration international-body international-law non-citizen-rights treaty-compliance treaty-obligations united-nations Does the United States still accept the United Nations as an international body?
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Continuing violation exception to Title VII limitation period
18-9418 D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing Whether the termination of non-white immigrant-owned small cab companies by the CAE airport based on alleged lack of access to Fort Jackson base, whil…
18A1204 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits discriminatory treatment of pro se litigants based on age and ethnic origin in st…
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
18-1420 Timothy Burns v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States?
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
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 …
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom?
18-1391 N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii Whether the plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York State Physicians Board was a protected activity under Title VII
18-9115 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Pazuniak Law Office, LLC, et al. Delaware 2019-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process medical-accommodation property-rights standing takings Question not identified
18-1356 Dayo Adetu, et al. v. Sidwell Friends School District of Columbia 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived academic-deference civil-rights damages discrimination human-rights-act material-adverse-action material-adversity non-pecuniary-damages retaliation retaliation-claims settlement-agreement summary-judgment Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on the grounds that non-pecuniary damages were not pe…
18-1310 Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. New York 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia…
18-8628 Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of his claim of nationality and citizenship under the 14th Amendment, resul…
18-8633 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiff's (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for…
18-8605 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
18-1250 Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda Denial of formal hearing for Black and socially disadvantaged farmers on discrimination complaints
18-8598 Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing Should courts be required to uphold laws that protect underprivileged, federally protected classes?
18-8553 Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a…
18-1171 Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation?
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely perfo…
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec…
18-8211 Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation Can a person's height be a disability under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213?
18-1112 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights?
18-1097 SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (2) airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce or because Congress has pas…
18-8105 Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute Is the statutory law prohibiting the arbitrary selected litigants petition to court discriminatory under Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 51…
18-7999 Raoul A. Galan v. Larry Gegenheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error racial-discrimination standing Were the lower courts manipulated by internal and/or external influences to deny petitioner his state and federal constitutional rights of protection?
18-7981 Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Governm…
18-1034 Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing Discrimination against African Americans in law enforcement programs receiving federal funding
18-7763 Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
18-7701 Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a 'structural error' for federal Judge John A. Mendez …
18-942 Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Relisted (5) adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer Whether it is a 'materially adverse action' under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re…
18-944 Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim?
18-7433 Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin
18-7359 Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole Tennessee 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off…
18-7338 Crystal Nicole Jones v. Office of Administrative Hearings, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights discrimination drug-addiction due-process medical-care medical-treatment professional-licensing standing Did the Kansas State Board of Nursing improperly deny a nursing license to the petitioner?
18-882 Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retaliation are permitted, as long as discrimination or ret…
18-866 Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law Whether Tennessee's tax on railroad fuel discriminates against railroads under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4)
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable
18-7017 Donna A. Black v. Jerome Lindsay District of Columbia 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights dc-housing-authority discrimination due-process habitability-standards housing housing-discrimination housing-voucher landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law lead-poisoning public-housing Why is our family left homeless when the landlord Jerome W. Lindsey Jr. AKA Jerome W. Lindsay Jr. had a job to maintain and keep a home in habitable l…
18-754 David A. Ramirez v. Walmart North Dakota 2018-12-13 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process employee-termination employment employment-law labor labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workload-allocation workplace-dismissal Why did the Walmart lawyer tell the court that this was a protected activity?
18-6933 Asia Johnson v. Children Youth and Families Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process negligence pro-se-litigation standing state-agency-liability summary-dismissal Was ordered to Dismiss my complaint summarily affirmed lower court decision
18-702 Rajeshwar Singh Yadav, et ux. v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discrimination pro-se-rights property-rights standing takings Am I a second-class citizen?
18-6740 Lena Lasher v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy Pennsylvania 2018-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-actions due-process equal-protection fair-notice judicial-review license-revocation perjury pharmacy-board Whether the Pennsylvania Board of Pharmacy violated the Fair Notice/Warning Rule and the Equal Protection Clause in revoking the plaintiff's pharmacis…
18-6684 Arika Matelyan v. Fox 11 Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Dismissed IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Why don't the highest courts in the land put a copy of it to the side when the older Black woman is not heard?
18-6657 Mohsen Khoshmood v. DC HQ Housing Authority District of Columbia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities civil-rights constitutional-violations discrimination due-process employment employment-rights government-services housing-authority housing-discrimination What is the issue being raised?
18-6669 Gernard Denez Chestnut v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection public-health standing civil-rights criminal-justice discrimination due-process equal-protection standing Can entry other cases in Florida with similar stakes be granted relief if not the one presented in this petition?
18-612 CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence Whether Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on interstate motor carriers justifies its facially discriminatory sales and use tax on railroad die…
18-6541 Michael Stoller v. Wilmington Trust Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-6517 Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii Whether the fashion industry has been exempted from the law of equal employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
18-6490 Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite its twi…
18-6411 Ennis Reed v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire Has California again departed from the federal standards governing determinations of racial bias during jury voir dire?
18-523 W. A. Griffin v. Verizon Communications Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived affordable-care-act anti-assignment-clause anti-assignment-clauses assignment-of-benefits civil-rights discrimination federal-financial-assistance good-old-boys-club plan-administration provider-standing section-1557 standing third-party-administrator Whether plan administrators discriminated against an African American female provider under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act
18-6354 Cheryl Lynn Jossie v. CVS Pharmacy Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights consent discrimination healthcare-information healthcare-information-processing healthcare-information-sharing healthcare-privacy herzing-university hipaa-violation license-practical-nurse licensing medical-information-sharing patient-consent privacy privacy-rights Why is CVS Pharmacy being allowed to break the law by sharing my Healthcare information? My consent was not given or authorized to be included in thei…
18-6274 Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association Colorado 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place
18-447 Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to transport goods interst…
18-6200 Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Uzoechi v. David Wilson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process emotional-distress false-conviction intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress malicious-prosecution title-ix Did the State of Maryland intentionally inflict emotional distress on Emmanuel C Uzoechi, and was Emmanuel C Uzoechi Maliciously prosecuted?
18-6140 Lena Terrell Hardaway v. Cross State Moving, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process standing civil-rights disability discrimination due-process housing standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act
18-6052 Mohsen Khoshmood v. Catholic Charity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-20 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights court-system discrimination due-process judicial-bias judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-system standing Whether the judicial system in the superior courts is completely corrupt, resulting in misjudgments or unjust judgments that undermine public trust in…
18-6043 Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-19 Denied IFP access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims Should there be a precedent from the Court that protects pro-se-prisoners' right to contest misconstrued-of-pro-se-claims?
18-347 West Congress Street Partners, LLC v. Rivertown Development, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-claims discrimination due-process elliott-larsen-civil-rights-act federal-statute gentrification minority-protection real-estate real-estate-discrimination Is the plausibility standard for federal conspiracy claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and § 1986 sufficient to protect minorities against discrimination i…
18-5920 Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination Whether the appeals court ruling conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions on important matters and cannot survive application of the correct le…
18-5850 In Re Christopher D. Schneider 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus lie when that fundamental right is going to be m…
18-5713 Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency District of Columbia 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration
18-5411 Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation Was there a legal obligation for company Jofaz Transportation, Inc. under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave for an employee wi…
18-5381 Aslam Handy v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeoc federal-reserve financial-crisis financial-misconduct free-speech job-discrimination sovereign-immunity whistle-blower Why has the Federal Reserve still not been asked to open its books?
18-5137 Maurice Daniel v. Brooklyn Law School New York 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-authority academic-due-process academic-performance americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act-title-iii discrimination discriminatory-punishment due-process educational-discrimination mental-health mental-illness new-york-city-human-rights-law new-york-city-human-rights-law-section-8-107(4)(a) title-ii title-iii Whether an academic dean's decision to bar a student from taking makeup exams and kick him out of school due to a mistaken belief that the student was…
18-5138 Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied?
18-5045 Vernon L. Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-housing freedom-of-speech retaliation standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to discrimination and retaliation under the Fair Housing Act and other civil rig…
18-9 Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether strict scrutiny should apply in reviewing lower courts' dismissal of Title VII complaint alleging discrimination, unfair pay, and retaliation
18-5026 Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's discrimination claim against respondent