disparate-impact

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25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25A365 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-injury disparate-impact fair-housing-act water-liens Whether a federal court may certify a class action under Rule 23 when some class members lack Article III standing due to absence of concrete injury i…
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis…
24-1014 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied age-discrimination burden-of-proof disparate-impact eeoc-regulation employment-law reasonable-factors Whether an employee alleging disparate impact under the ADEA bears the burden of persuasion on the 'reasonable factors other than age' defense
24A726 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. Denver Housing Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination judicial-accountability systemic-discrimination title-vi Whether federal courts can recognize systemic discrimination as a cognizable legal claim under Title VI and the Fair Housing Act when challenging hous…
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial Whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act permits disparate impact claims beyond the traditional protected class of employees aged 40 and over,…
23-1340 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof civil-rights-litigation defendant-liability disparate-impact fair-housing-act legitimate-business-purpose prima-facie-burden statistical-disparity Whether a plaintiff relying on a disparate-impact theory of liability under the Fair Housing Act carries her prima facie burden by showing only a pree…
23-1137 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (8) boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions Whether an equal protection challenge to facially race-neutral admission criteria is barred simply because members of the racial groups targeted for d…
23A924 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination policy-challenge statistical-evidence Whether the Fair Housing Act's disparate-impact theory requires a robust causal connection between a challenged policy and discriminatory effects, and…
23-1005 Ann Redd-Oyedele v. Santa Clara County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment employment-practices preponderance-of-evidence racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether a Court may properly grant summary judgment where a party failed to establish, by a preponderance of evidence, as shown in the records, that t…
23-765 Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs Did this violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by disparately impacting Dr. Patel and other like applicants on the basis of their national…
23-5502 Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a law originally enacted with a discriminatory purpose can be cured of an equal protection violation by subsequent amendments or reenactments …
23-5275 Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act Does 8 U.S.C. § 1326 violate the equal-protection guarantee of the Fifth-Amendment?
22-5679 Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona Arizona 2022-09-26 Denied IFP batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Must a court reviewing a Batson challenge consider both a substantial disparate impact on minority jurors and the cumulative nature of the State's mis…
21-6976 Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing Whether the application of the Fair Housing Act to disparate impact claims is valid
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings?
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?
20-1682 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
20-1374 CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, One, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Granted Amici (21)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-statute civil-rights disability-discrimination disparate-impact health-insurance insurance patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act rehabilitation-act Whether section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ACA provide a disparate-impact cause of action for disability discrimination, and whether such c…
20-957 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, to disclose their …
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…
19-8432 Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California California 2020-05-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices Whether the 4th and 8th Amendment protections, as incorporated by the 14th Amendment, were violated by the conditions of confinement in California sta…
19-1257 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 15th-amendment ballot-collection discriminatory-burden disparate-impact election-integrity election-law fifteenth-amendment out-of-precinct-policy precinct-voting provisional-ballots section-2 voter-suppression voting-rights voting-rights-act Does Arizona's out-of-precinct policy violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act?
19-497 The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the racia…
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California 2019-05-20 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforcemen…
18-1346 Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, or does it apply only to incumbent…
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreason…
18-8633 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…
18-1217 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the Fair Housing Ac…
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
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Whether disparate impact on African Americans should be considered at Batson's third step
18-163 James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc…
18-5180 Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or …