employer-liability

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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 Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow an employer to be held liable for discrimination on the basis of disability where the employee has no p…
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 Does the Tax Code authorize the employer to determine the employee's income tax liability without consent and may the Commissioner of Internal Revenue…
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 Whether an employer's honest but mistaken belief about an employee's FMLA-protected leave precludes liability under the Family and Medical Leave Act
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 Whether an employer is vicariously liable for sexual harassment reported anonymously, whether employer liability depends on organizational size, and w…
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 Is illegal work considered legitimate work?
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 Whether Walmart Stores has the right to decide not to cover an employee injured on the job
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 Can case be dismissed without a hearing?
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 Should the employer be responsible for fully paying all benefits till the date of the WCJ's decision, even if the worker had recovered earlier?
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 Whether the court may immunize an employer's asserted reason for termination from examination of its truthfulness by characterizing it as a 'business …
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 Where an employer must respond to complaints of sexual harassment
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 Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA…
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 Which parts of the constitution (if any) justify the doctrine of state sovereign immunity?
19-6285 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Stan the Hot Water Man Oregon 2019-10-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure employer-liability intentional-torts material-fact material-facts property-damage respondeat-superior scope-of-employment summary-judgment tortious-conduct Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment when there were disputed issues of material fact?
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 Does ERISA preempt state-law claims alleging that an insurer's misrepresentations about an ERISA plan's terms induced an employer to create the plan?
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?
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 is in conflict with the Twigbal holdings
18-6460 Waddell Bynum v. DeKalb County Sanitation Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Dismissed IFP ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employer-liability employment insurance insurance-reporting pro-se-appeal retaliation sexual-harassment workplace-safety Did the company fail to report the incident to the necessary people or proper authorities to contact the appellee regarding the accident or injury?