| 25-6669 |
Ezequiel Rivera v. Nestle USA, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
circuit-split eeoc-charge hostile-environment pro-se-pleading retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
Whether federal courts violate Haines v. Kerner and create a de facto circuit split by narrowly construing pro se EEOC charges to include only checked… |
| 25-5323 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. Office of the South Carolina Governor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination employment-opportunities pro-se-petition title-vii |
Whether a charge filed with the EEOC is required to bring a federal employment discrimination lawsuit and whether secret blackballing constitutes a ci… |
| 23-1031 |
Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work-environment case and eliminate from consideration… |
| 23-6309 |
Elvin Farris v. Vector Construction, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment civil-rights discovery-rule EEOC eeoc-charge employment-discrimination legal-amendment statute-of-limitations termination-notice |
Should the petitioner been allowed to amend the EEOC charge |
| 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… |
| 21-1475 |
Maria Vazquez-Javier v. Union de Tronquistas de Puerto Rico Local 901 |
Puerto Rico |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
|
eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-claims federal-regulatory-framework retaliation state-claims statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the federal statutory and regulatory framework provides that any employee that files a Charge of Discrimination and Retaliation before the EEO… |
| 21-6400 |
Sonya R. Edwards v. Mesquite Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination procedural-waiver statute-of-limitations title-vii |
In light of the Supreme Court's holdings that an EEOC intake questionnaire may constitute a charge and a charge may be verified after the filing perio… |
| 21-733 |
Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii |
Does a petitioner who files an EEOC charge and asserts a claim of retaliatory discrimination for engaging in protected activities under the anti-retal… |
| 21-522 |
Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii |
Whether a claim of unlawful retaliation for filing an EEOC charge can be addressed in a civil action without a second formal administrative charge |
| 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 |
| 19-1393 |
Rachelle Davis v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actor civil-rights different-retaliatory-conduct eeoc-charge employment-discrimination lack-of-merit merit pro-se-complaint protected-activity reasonable-accommodation retaliation retaliation-claim same-actor statute-of-limitations timeliness untimely-complaint |
Does protection against retaliation apply even if the original complaint or charge was untimely or was found to lack merit when initiated by the same … |
| 19-7934 |
Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour… |
| 19-260 |
Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment |
Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty… |
| 19-5517 |
Eric Alan Sanders v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 eeoc eeoc-charge pleading-amendment pleadings right-to-sue rule-15 rule-15(d) title-vii |
Whether an aggrieved person can amend a complaint under Rule 15 or supplement a complaint under Rule 15(d) after the deadline for amending pleadings h… |
| 18-9593 |
Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii |
Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no… |
| 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 |
| 18-8035 |
Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration |
Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case |
| 18-5196 |
Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether filing a Title VII action to which the underlying EEOC charge failed to assert retaliation, an amended complaint allegation asserting retaliat… |
| 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 … |