employer-liability
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-303 | Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against its employees "on the basis of disability." … |
| 24-1317 | Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | employer-liability income-tax internal-revenue-service perjury tax-code tax-determination | 1. Does the Tax Code authorize the employer to determine the employee's income tax liability without consent and may the Commissioner of Internal Reve… |
| 24-493 | Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation | Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still … |
| 24-5742 | Jasmine Oliver v. Amazon.com Services LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | employer-liability reasonable-accommodation retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-discrimination | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, U.S.C. 2000e Et Seq., outlines an employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created … |
| 24-82 | Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, aka Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | course-of-business employer-liability employment medical-licensing unlawful-employment worker's-compensation workers-compensation workplace-liability workplace-safety wrongful-death | 1. Is illegal work considered legitimate work? 2. Does the Virginia worker's compensation act consider illegal work in the course of the business, tr… |
| 23-5622 | Ervie Savage v. Walmart Stores, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights disability disability-insurance employer-liability employment employment-law insurance sedgwick-claims workers-compensation workplace-injury | Under what rules does Walmart Stores have the right to decide not to cover An employee injured on the job? Why was I not paid, while off work on a Lea… |
| 23-174 | Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process employer-liability false-accusations legal-standing procedural-hearing | 1. Can case be dismissed without a hearing? 2. Is employer liable for violations of due process, constitutional rights violations in year 2019, from … |
| 22-941 | Hatem Saied v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board of Pennsylvania, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment benefits bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel employer-liability medical-care workers-compensation | 1. In light of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, should the employer who failed to provide medical care to the injured worker be responsibl… |
| 21-1315 | Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response Waived | business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness | In an employment case, where the plaintiff disputes the truthfulness of the employer's asserted reason for termination, may a court immunize that reas… |
| 21-843 | Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii | (1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua… | |
| 21-716 | David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower | Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot… | |
| 20-852 | Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("… |
| 20-6455 | Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings | Unlike employees of local governments and private entities, employees of state entities are excluded from recovering monetary relief when injured by t… |
| 19-6285 | Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Stan the Hot Water Man | Oregon | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure employer-liability intentional-torts material-fact material-facts property-damage respondeat-superior scope-of-employment summary-judgment tortious-conduct | 1. Did the trial court Multnomah County Circuit Court State of Oregon error in ruling that as a matter of law when there exists disputed genuine issue… |
| 19-77 | Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims | The familiar express preemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") outlaws any state laws that "relate to" an … |
| 18-8191 | Marianne E. Burke, Mother of Abigail E. Caudle, Deceased v. Raven Electric, Inc., et al. | Alaska | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | death-in-the-workplace death-in-workplace employee-death employer-liability gross-negligence justice-for-victims legal-remedy workers-compensation workplace-safety | Should America's Workers' Compensation laws continue to allow all employers "no liability" in all accidents and all injuries including death? What ab… |
| 18-7319 | Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards | Whether the court of appeals' decision, purporting to follow the principles elucidated by this Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 19… |
| 18-6460 | Waddell Bynum v. DeKalb County Sanitation | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | IFP | ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employer-liability employment insurance insurance-reporting pro-se-appeal retaliation sexual-harassment workplace-safety | DID NOT THE COMPANY FAIL IN NOT REPORTING THE INCIDENT TO THR NECESSARY PEOPLE OR PROPER AUTHORITIES TO CONTACT APPELLEE REGARDING THE ACCIDENT OR INJ… |