diversity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7667 Renee Chrustowski v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights diversity employment-discrimination harassment protected-class retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Does the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over non-diverse parties when there is no federal question?
21-755 Carter Page, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1332 carden-v-arkoma citizenship complete-diversity diversity diversity-jurisdiction domicile newman-green partnership partnership-defendant stateless-citizen Whether a U.S. Citizen domiciled abroad who is a member of a partnership defendant destroys the complete diversity required by 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), wh…
21-707 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (14)Relisted (3) admissions affirmative-action civil-rights diversity educational-diversity equal-protection grutter-precedent higher-education higher-education-admissions race-conscious-admissions race-neutral-alternatives Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions?
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
19-964 Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 11th Circuit violated petitioners' rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining siblings as claimants and real parties in a negli…
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee When a mortgage investment trust removes a case from federal court based on diversity, is its citizenship determined by the citizenship of each of its…
18-1148 Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment Discrimination-based-on-perceived-race/religion/national-origin
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law