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25-6798 Jay Pemberton v. Bell's Brewery, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-standard mcDonnell-douglas summary-judgment Whether a court of appeals may affirm summary judgment by resolving disputed issues of fact and credibility in the employer's favor based on judge-mad…
25-6760 Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days?
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the negligence standard that applies to Title VII workplace harassment by coworkers also applies to workplace harassment by customers
25-857 Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio…
25-6605 Julian Francis Bates v. General Motors, LLC, dba GM Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP burden-shifting discovery-rules employee-resource-group employment-discrimination gender-bias summary-judgment Whether a party can be granted summary judgment after failing to cooperate in discovery and disobeying court rules, and whether a women's employee res…
25A801 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the 'Cat's Paw' doctrine establishes causation in employment discrimination cases involving disability discrimination and retaliation claims
25-6498 Cynthia Stephanie Jones v. Providence Teachers Union, Local 958 First Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending IFP district-court eeoc employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis right-to-sue teachers-union Shall the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issue a Right to Sue to a claimant only to have the Right-to-Sue expeditiously denied upon entry to …
25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy Whether a religious organization can raise the First Amendment right to religious autonomy as an affirmative claim challenging government action and w…
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and summary judgment decisions must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory framework regarding…
25-6277 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights eeo-claim employment-discrimination federal-employees postal-service workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25-6273 Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending IFP comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination stray-remarks summary-judgment supervisor-bias Whether the Fifth Circuit's rigid evidentiary standards for employment discrimination claims impermissibly restrict plaintiffs' ability to prove discr…
25A624 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2025-11-26 Application employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state laws that conflict with Title VII's religious accommodation requirements
25A614 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary judgment ruling contravenes Supreme Court precedents governing employment discrimination claims under Title VII a…
25-6177 Jesse D. Pellow v. Presbyterian Homes, Inc., dba Presbyter Third Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se Whether the lower courts improperly dismissed a pro se civil complaint related to employment discrimination and denied the petitioner's constitutional…
25-587 Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting case-law employment-discrimination judicial-framework mcdonnell-douglas stare-decisis Whether McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green should be overruled
25A570 Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether a federal agency's adverse employment action constitutes unlawful retaliation under Title VII when an employee has engaged in protected EEO ac…
25-5929 Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii Whether federal employment discrimination laws qualify indigenous peoples as a protected class for national origin and/or race discrimination
25-499 Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response Waived causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for summary judgment analysis and whether 'but for' or motivating factor causation applies in…
25-434 Timothy Ryan Gove v. Sargento Foods, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2) administrative-investigation civil-rights corporate-liability employment-discrimination federal-regulations hostile-work-environment Whether management's directives outside corporate facilities constitute actionable employment discrimination under federal statutes and investigative …
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the 'severe or pervasive' standard for hostile work environment claims under Title VII to ensure uniform nati…
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii Whether the 'some harm' standard applies to sexual harassment claims under the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII
25-397 Delton York v. Scott Kupor, Director, Office of Personnel Management Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights employment-discrimination neutral-reason prima-facie-case racial-animus summary-judgment Whether a court should give controlling weight to a neutral reason for employment decision when evidence of racial animus exists
25A373 Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-review employment-discrimination medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation workplace-injury Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for an employee with medical work restrictions f…
25-353 Sally W. Tarquinio v. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Fourth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidelines employment-discrimination medical-decision-making medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and this Court's decisions recognizing liberty in medical decision-making permit an employer to term…
25-5663 Brahim Boumakh v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations employment-discrimination jury-trial procedural-technicalities religious-accommodation Whether a United States District Court judge may dismiss a civil rights employment discrimination case on procedural technicalities without granting: …
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…
25-5617 Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. New Jersey 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection Whether a public school teacher can be dismissed without prior investigation under New Jersey employment law
25A271 Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete burden-shifting civil-rights employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework remains a viable standard for analyzing employment discrimination claims under Title VII
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a 'contributing factor' in Section 42121(b) is one that 'alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-239 Tonya C. Huber v. Westar Foods, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case retaliatory-intent summary-judgment Whether a plaintiff alleging employment discrimination must establish a prima facie case and pretext under the McDonnell Douglas framework when seekin…
25A209 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii Whether federal courts of appeal are divided on standards for sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and collective bargaining agreement interp…
25-191 James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii Whether the opinion of the court of appeals disregarding evidence of employer bias against male employees is contrary to the Supreme Court's decision …
25-183 Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending CVSGRelisted (3) educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment
25-5355 Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP catering-industry contract-interpretation covid-19-restrictions employment-discrimination employment-guide workplace-rights Whether an employee was discriminated against by a catering company during the 2020 Women's Open due to Covid-19 restrictions and denied guaranteed wo…
25-5351 Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment allow federal employees equal protection and accountability for wrongful termination
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada 2025-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity Whether a state's sovereign immunity defense in a civil rights complaint constitutes a valid Fifth Amendment invocation and Fourteenth Amendment prote…
25-5335 In Re Xena Ames 2025-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination ineffective-counsel mandamus writ-of-certiorari Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is the proper procedure to correct a clear abuse of discretion by the trial court due to ineffective counse…
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…
25-5288 Eddie Mekasha v. Christy Chapplear, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-complications disparate-treatment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity performance-review workplace-termination Whether Tyson Fresh Meats' termination of an employee with an excellent performance record constitutes workplace discrimination under EEOC guidelines
25A142 Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment Whether an employer's multiple evaluation attempts and termination of an employee after failed performance assessments constitute unlawful race and ag…
25A141 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete burden-shifting contributing-factor employment-discrimination retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision requires a plaintiff to prove that their protected activity was a substantial or m…
25A88 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry Question not identified.
25-5140 Amy Pickett v. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment Did the Respondents violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights through discrimination, retaliation, and failure to provide ADA accommodations in a…
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-termina…
25-47 Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii Whether the courts improperly applied zero tolerance harassment policies under Title VII, EPA, ADA, and EEOC standards in evaluating multiple alleged …
25-33 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation Whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts that establish a prima facie case of discrimination; whether c…
25A25 Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts must apply a broad, expansive definition of religious belief under Title VII that allows for the coexistence of secular and rel…
24A1295 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d…
24A1207 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a heightened pleading standard to employment discrimination claims in contravention of Bell Atlantic Co…
24-7336 Blondell F. Mitchell v. Raytown Water, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eeoc-discrimination employment-discrimination equal-protection media-harassment Whether the EEOC and various defendants violated Mitchell's constitutional rights through discriminatory actions, media harassment, and procedural mis…
24-7284 Charles L. Burgett v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether the lower courts applied the correct summary judgment standard of review for prima facie and for pretext in assessing a case of employment dis…
24-1174 Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsistent …
24A1096 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour…
24-7098 Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights Whether Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination across all employment terms, conditions, and privileges, or are limited to significant disc…
24-7055 Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and federal lockdowns constitute a valid basis for equitable tolling of filing deadlines in a pro se employment discrimi…
24-1076 John Sigley v. ND Fairmont LLC Fourth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act dischargeable-misconduct employment-discrimination fourth-circuit medical-condition-disclosure post-offer-questionnaire Whether an individual's decision not to disclose a medical condition on a post-offer questionnaire receives protection under the ADA?
24-1054 Derek Blockhus v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence-authentication fmla-interference summary-judgment witness-credibility Did the Appellate Court improperly weigh evidence and dismiss claims by overlooking critical facts and testimony in a civil procedure context?
24-6919 Pablo Enrique Rosado Sanchez v. Travis Kalanick, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP algorithmic-harassment employment-discrimination independent-contractor-rights non-disclosure-agreement tip-stealing uber-ai-manipulation Whether Uber's use of generative artificial intelligence to manipulate driver earnings and employment status constitutes an unlawful labor practice th…
24-1015 John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may serve …
24-996 Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protec…
24-897 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Nelson County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection national-origin plausibility-standard Whether a complaint alleging employment discrimination based on national origin meets the plausibility standard for stating a claim under federal civi…
24-811 Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education Sixth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court and circuit court improperly applied summary judgment standards and violated constitutional due process rights in a Title V…
24A751 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation Whether an employer's termination of an employee who has requested medical accommodations and taken intermittent leave constitutes unlawful discrimina…
24-807 David Stanley v. Scott Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-service delaware-state-college-v-ricks employment-discrimination finality-of-action grievance-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Delaware State College v. Ricks applies to grievance procedures that constitute 'direct review' and impact the …
24-6413 La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit employer retaliation for employee rights assertions and protect against workplace discrimination bas…
24A741 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2025-01-28 Presumed Complete administrative-review employment-discrimination federal-employment judicial-appeal veterans-preference veterans-rights Whether the Veterans' Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (VERRRA) requires federal agencies to provide substantive preference and procedural prote…
24-794 Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived actionable-conduct discrete-acts employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-harassment statute-of-limitations Was it an error of law for the Appeals Court to misapply the Supreme Court's Morgan standard in evaluating the timeliness and sufficiency of a hostile…
24-6380 Megan Rust v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied IFP civil-rights-violation code-of-conduct employment-discrimination employment-retaliation labor-law workplace-harassment Whether LabCorp's change in work schedule from full-time to vacation coverage constitutes retaliatory conduct in violation of the company's Code of Co…
24A715 Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination golf-tournament pro-se-petition racial-bias supreme-court-review women's-open Whether the Supreme Court will review a potential case of employment discrimination in golf based on alleged racial bias at the 2020 Women's Open tour…
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i…
24-6127 Jocelyn Lisa Doyle v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law employment-discrimination judicial-review prohibited-personnel-practice reinstatement whistleblower-protection Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act by improperly dismissing a whistleblower's claims of retaliation an…
24-640 Patricia A. Allen v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2024-12-12 Denied Response Waived causation-standard due-process employment-discrimination jury-instructions retaliation-claim title-vii Whether a trial court abused its discretion by providing jury instructions that omitted Title VII discrimination claims and applied different causatio…
24-638 Mehdi Moini v. Ellen M. Granberg, in Her Official Capacity as President of George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-12-11 Denied Response Waived academic-tenure employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation-theory section-1981 similarly-situated Whether a Middle-Eastern Iranian is considered a race under §1981 and what evidence is needed to prove racial discrimination in academic tenure decisi…
24A568 Thomas Ostly v. City and County of San Francisco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment public-employee retaliation summary-judgment Whether a public employee can establish a First Amendment retaliation claim when alleging termination based on protected speech without presenting dir…
24-623 Lanlan Li v. Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination essential-job-function interactive-process pretext-analysis summary-judgment Whether an 'essential job function' is a question of fact for the jury and whether courts improperly grant summary judgment in ADA cases
24-603 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision regarding DEA employment discrimination claims under Title VII and discover…
24-546 Karin Weng v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2024-11-15 Denied Response Waived comparator-evidence disciplinary-charges due-process employment-discrimination pretext summary-judgment Whether a plaintiff must demonstrate comparators are 'nearly identical' or merely 'similarly situated' in employment discrimination summary judgment p…
24-5903 Asem Farooq v. Donna Bolt, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination military-reservist seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial applies to employment discrimination claims involving military reservists and minority employees
24-5885 Sherrell Dowdell-McElhaney v. Global Payments Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-act employment-discrimination protected-opposition-activity retaliation summary-judgment workplace-discrimination Whether the District Court erred in granting summary judgment on claims of employment discrimination and retaliation under Title VII, ADEA, ADA, and F…
24-481 Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly deferred to a doctor's medical restrictions in determining ADA 'qualified individual' status, or whether a more …
24A380 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination frivolous-appeal habeas-corpus intellectual-property pro-se-litigation summary-judgment Whether a pro se litigant's employment discrimination and intellectual property claims can survive dismissal as frivolous when alleging unlawful termi…
24-5789 Saretta Mildred Gross v. United Parcel Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collective-bargaining employment-discrimination jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff sexual-harassment Whether a district court errs in dismissing a pro se plaintiff's complaint without fully considering incorporated earlier complaints and allegations o…
24-427 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (10)Relisted (5) burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework requires a plaintiff to disprove an employer's proffered reason for adverse employment action …
24A340 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Nicholas DeFries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action class-certification employment-discrimination statute-of-limitations Whether courts should resolve ambiguity in a class definition by presumptively applying American Pipe tolling unless a defendant can definitively prov…
24A300 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas personal-knowledge summary-judgment Whether an attorney's conclusory declaration without personal knowledge can be used to support summary judgment in an employment discrimination case
24-289 Yolanda D. Tyson v. Town of Ramapo, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test prima-facie-case racial-discrimination May an employer dispute a plaintiff's prima facie case of racial discrimination by using a comparator status determination that violates the Americans…
24-274 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC, dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied disability-rights employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra veterans-protection Whether the Seventh Circuit misapplied USERRA provisions and improperly relied on ADA standards in evaluating a disabled veteran's reemployment rights
24-5518 Mark E. Brown v. Unified School District No. 501 Tenth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-shifting-analysis civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation section-1981 section-1983 Whether a plaintiff was required to file a Section 1981 claim instead of a Section 1983 claim in an employment discrimination case
24-5491 Phile Andra Watson v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action causation employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed-motive standard for proving employment discrimination
24-5390 Paulina Buhagiar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada employment-discrimination intentional-emotional-distress ninth-circuit summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment against an employee alleging workplace discrimination, retaliation, and emotional distre…
24-179 Eric Katz v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination material-fact reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the court erred in upholding the ruling that there was no genuine issue of material fact with regard to Mr. Katz's claims of DOJ violations of…
24-123 Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 Tenth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation Question not identified
24-106 Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination employment-discrimination
24-5149 Brandy Thompson v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-rehabilitation-act-burden-shifting-qualified-i burden-shifting disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation retaliation-claim Did the lower court correctly apply the burden-shifting framework in assessing the plaintiff's discrimination and retaliation claims under the America…
24A69 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete deposition-platform due-process employment-discrimination rule-37 rule-60 rule-72 Whether a district court violates a pro se plaintiff's due process rights when dismissing an employment discrimination case under Rule 37 without adju…
24-67 Tammie L. Terrell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination-in-employment-act burden-of-proof but-for-causation causation differential-treatment employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-action retaliation title-vii Whether differential treatment must contribute to the ultimate decision
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified
24A54 The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago v. Janay E. Garrick Seventh Circuit 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete church-autonomy employment-discrimination first-amendment judicial-interference religious-liberty title-vii Whether the First Amendment's church autonomy doctrine protects religious organizations from judicial interference in internal leadership disputes or …
24-48 Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship Does an employer violate Title VII when it fails to hire a person because his sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit him from agreeing to recognize…
24-5023 Willie Edward Nichols v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP disability-discrimination employment-discrimination long-term-employment management-misconduct part-time-employment pay-cut pay-reduction retaliation vacation-pay workplace-rights wrongful-termination Question not identified
23-1354 Jamilah Abdul-Haqq v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act duty-of-fair-representation employment-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Do the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) necessitate employers and unions to engage in an interacti…
23-1346 The Golub Corporation v. Elaine Bart Second Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mixed-motive pretext summary-judgment title-vii Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to mixed motive discrimination cases, and if so, how are the three stages of that framework to be formul…
23-1347 Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure 23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii Due process-requirements-for-service-of-process-on-foreign-defendants
23-7702 Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the fabrication of false evidence by the respondent is evidence of pretext to discharge the petitioner
23A1109 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-standards employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra Whether federal courts may conflate disability standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemploym…
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower civil-rights
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
23-7617 Andrew Nguyen v. AT&T Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equipment-allocation hotline-complaint performance-review racial-bias retaliation tool-access workplace-retaliation Upfront access to order tools and materials
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority to direct and overs…
23-1235 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied circumstantial-evidence comparator-analysis convincing-mosaic employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the prima facie case and comparator analysis set forth in McDonnell-Douglas-Corp-v-Green-remains-the-correct-legal-test-in-proving-employment-…
23-7490 Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business' premises for work because her admission would…
23A1007 Judy Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-05-13 Presumed Complete antitrust-violations charter-schools civil-rights employment-discrimination school-district state-board Whether state education authorities can constitutionally deny charter school applications through allegedly discriminatory and anti-competitive practi…
23-7320 Darrin Espinosa v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights employment-discrimination essential-functions job-performance reasonable-accommodation termination termination-of-employment workers-compensation Does a disabled person have the right to perform a job even though he does not need accommodations to perform all essential functions of the job?
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing Whether the lower court relied on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender dis…
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-1085 Kava Holdings, LLC, dba Hotel Bel-Air v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied 8(a)(3) anti-union-animus burden-of-proof circuit-court-split employment-discrimination labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlrb-standard unfair-labor-practice Whether the NLRB may rely solely on 'generalized' evidence of anti-union animus, without a causal nexus to the specific adverse employment actions at …
23-7074 Venus Moore v. Delaware Merit Employee Relations Board, et al. Delaware 2024-03-28 Denied IFP ada-accommodation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination interactive-process reasonable-accommodation veterans-readjustment-act vevraa Did the defendant have a legal obligation to engage in a flexible interactive process with the plaintiff under the Americans Disabilities Act?
23-1039 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show 'background circumstances to support the suspic…
23-1027 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-03-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-governance corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination immigration-law outsourcing-practices standing treasury-recovery visa-fraud Whether the petitioners are entitled to the writs of mandamus, prohibition or alternative relief
23-1019 Dennis McLain v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response Waived causation-standard civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee federal-employment jury-instruction retaliation title-vii whistleblowing Whether the jury should be instructed on the causation standard delineated in Babb v. Wilkie for federal employee Title VII claims
23-997 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-12 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination legal-standing post-employment-benefits standing workplace-discrimination Does a former employee have a right to sue over discrimination with respect to post-employment benefits under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin…
23-6773 Rita R. Smith v. Mount Sinai Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidence-suppression labor-relations termination termination-dispute workplace-policies workplace-retaliation Why was I not allowed to submit proof of where & when job assignment
23-6731 Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony Defendant's-admission-of-guilt-overridden
23A744 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Presumed Complete academic-proceedings civil-rights employment-discrimination tenth-circuit title-vii university-liability Whether a university can be held liable for alleged discrimination in employment or academic proceedings under Title VII or other civil rights statute…
23-836 Samer Ali-Hasan v. St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination termination title-vii wrongful-termination Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows is…
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) permits a plaintiff to pursue employment discrimination claims against a municipal employer when all…
23A698 Martha Carrascal v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Presumed Complete discovery-sanctions dismissal employment-discrimination judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant rule-37 Whether a district court may impose the sanction of dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2)(A)(v) for a plaintiff's failure to comply…
23-6582 Joseph Emerson v. United States District Court, et al. Ohio 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-corruption defamation due-process employment-discrimination extraordinary-writ favoritism interstate-dispute judicial-misconduct nepotism standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his cases by the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, who…
23-6554 Darlene Feiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competent-counsel constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process employment-discrimination freedom law-enforcement-misconduct liberty privacy Question not identified
23-6528 Charles L. Burgett v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-2000e civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment-discriminat…
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…
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation?
23A647 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct Whether Title VII permits a hostile work environment claim based on allegations of unwanted physical contact and sexual harassment by a supervisor and…
23A636 Weili Cao-Bossa v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete civil-service-law employment-discrimination negligent-misrepresentation rule-of-three statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether a state agency's alleged discriminatory hiring practices and fabricated declination letter violate New York's Civil Service Law Section 61 and…
23-6416 Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and frau…
23-728 Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities Is providing discriminatory working conditions or facilities based on race or sex an unlawful employment practice?
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal inmate prisoner may bring a Bivens claim for racial discrimination against prison officials
23-703 Liberty University, Inc. v. Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer Fourth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied constitutional-law defense-to-liability employment-discrimination first-amendment immunity ministerial-exception religious-autonomy religious-institutions religious-organizations Whether the First Amendment ministerial exception provides religious organizations with immunity from employment discrimination suits, or merely a def…
23-6391 Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection Are minority males who oppose discrimination entitled to equal-protection
23-6371 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights clearance-system constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-suppression obstruction-of-justice sixth-amendment Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1695
23-6324 Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii Did the Virginia (Defendant's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964, 1990. And, S…
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
23A550 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination post-employment-benefits title-i Whether Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against former employees with respect to post-employment benefits earn…
23-561 Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity Does the EPA protect employees who are paid less money for positions requiring more skill, effort, or responsibility than those held by employees of t…
23-6059 Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-bias judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation standing whistleblower-protection Why did the Federal Circuit Court ignore Petitioner's MSPB case regarding her IRA
23-6009 Mario Austin v. American Building Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mr. Rustin's claims of retaliation and national origin discrimination under Title VII
23A442 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services, LLC Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete ada-retaliation disability-accommodations employment-discrimination jury-trial monetary-damages statutory-interpretation Whether monetary damages and jury trials are available to plaintiffs alleging employment retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
23-449 Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-agency-misconduct federal-employment hiring-process initial-appointment military-service-rights veterans-preference When federal agencies violate veterans' preference laws in initial employment decisions, are their actions motivated by hostility towards military ser…
23-5914 Samuel O. Araoye v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination forensics government-liability policy-maker-liability racial-discrimination record-alteration veterans-rights Where Respondent [City Government] and its individual policymaking authorities violate the Appellant's Constitutional rights under 14th Amendment per …
23-5897 Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i…
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the current judicial system's determination of justice determined by one's race or national origin?
23-5843 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Super Market, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-qualified-individual ada-reasonable-accommodations ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-rights eeoc-filing employment-discrimination employment-termination judicial-review reasonable-accommodation Whether the plaintiff's EEOC filing was timely, whether the plaintiff was a qualified individual under the ADA, whether the plaintiff's accommodation …
23-417 Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non-mo…
23A356 Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-19 Presumed Complete burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat…
23-5745 Zephryn (Stephanie) Hammond v. University of Vermont Medical Center Vermont 2023-10-10 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination legal-standards mcdonnell-douglas-framework protected-characteristics retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Under what circumstances should an employer's response to an employee's complaint about a protected characteristic warrant documentation, investigatio…
23-362 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination equal-access essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation Whether the ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement is limited to accommodations that enable an employee to perform the essential functions of a po…
23-5697 Asem Farooq v. Manheim Remarketing, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration-dismissal civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-protected-class military-service military-service-protection wrongful-termination Whether an employer can arbitrarily dismiss an employee who is a federally protected class member and was terminated in violation of the rules announc…
23-5687 Isaac Brunson v. DeKalb County Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Will the Supreme Court continue to allow federal district and appellate courts to pervert the original intention of the summary judgement device and t…
23-275 Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes?
23-264 Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee Whether an employer's selection of the equipment used to perform a job precludes a court from considering whether modification of such equipment would…
23-256 Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal employees' rights are determined under statutes that require all personnel actions affecting employees or applicants to be made free f…
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment in a case involving allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation by…
23-5493 Brenda M. Johnson v. Catholic Community Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-law housing property-rights retaliation workplace-protection Is Brenda M Johnson an employee under WSDOT for protective activity clause
23-5501 May Chen v. Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process eeoc-enforcement employment employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-compliance regulatory-action standing Can federal agencies comply with EEOC's appeal decision and employment discrimination laws?
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines' misrepresentation of the terms of t…
23-5005 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination protected-class title-vii workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally and knowingly discriminate against an employee based on race-national-origin-gender-sexual-orientation?
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can …
22-1240 Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts Whether general common law principles of respondeat superior apply to hold an employer liable for an employee's tortious acts under 42 U.S.C. § 1981
22-1244 Angela Joseph v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-procedure job-performance protected-class summary-judgment wrongful-termination Whether summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civic Procedure Rule 56 standard was improperly granted
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation
22-1174 Michael Erwine v. Churchill County, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-discrimination ninth-circuit procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-rights stare-decisis stigma-plus To state a viable 'stigma-plus' claim, must a plaintiff prove as a matter of fact 'effective exclusion' from a chosen profession?
22-1144 Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood should have voluntarily recused themselves
22-1092 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy-Clause, federal-laws, final-pretrial-judgment, qualified-immunity, summary-judgment
22-7448 Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some…
22-7383 Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution Can the courts substitute the United States as a defendant in a diversity action brought under Section 1346 of the Federal Tort Claims Act without mak…
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination under Title VII based on a supervisor's alleged bias
22-975 Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex constitutes prohibited employment discrimination 'becau…
22-7219 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Dismissed IFP certiorari-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination government-misconduct judicial-procedure standing whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-7168 Larry St. Clair Whetstone v. Fraley and Schilling Trucking Company Third Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-oath standing Is the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the lower court's decision remain a decision that contradicts the judicial oath of fai…
22-931 Paulo K. Mwassa v. Presbyterian Homes & Services Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied but-for-causation but-for-cause civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination federal-sector-employment protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires a plaintiff to prove that retaliation for protected activit…
22-7006 Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's grievance procedure claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Ac…
22-7001 Sheniqua L. Watson v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Fourth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex job-requirements prima-facie-case substantially-equal veteran-status veterans-preference Can veteran status be used as a 'factor other than sex' affirmative defense for a job that does not require military service experience?
22-6910 Carolyn L. Fields v. Hunter Conrad, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination government-job human-relations-commission pro-se-representation retaliation standing workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Is everyone entitled to an attorney?
22-832 Michael A. Caldwell, et al. v. Joseph M. Gasper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director, Michigan State Police, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination diversity-initiative employment employment-discrimination gender-preference protected-activity race-preference title-vii Whether opposition to an employer's 'Diversity Initiative' (non-remedial race and gender preferences) constitutes protected activity under 42 USC § 19…
22-6884 Pradheep Chhalliyil v. Foodchain ID Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination evidence evidence-gathering national-origin-discrimination prima-facie-case termination title-vii Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination as to all terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including denial to g…
22-817 Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below conflicts with Staub v. Proctor Hospital
22-6817 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator?
22-741 Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker Tenth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (4) church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment's 'ministerial exception' should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions fa…
22-737 Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii Whether the government's requirement that an individual possess a valid Social Security Number imposes a substantial burden on Petitioner's religious …
22-713 Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-597 Herbert W. G. Clanton v. Sam's Club, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-amendments discrimination-in-employment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure Whether the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required compliance with the minimum benefits, privileges, immunities, and degrees of protection guarante…
22-6412 Nicholas Conlan v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation employment-discrimination interactive-process jury-trial pretext reasonable-accommodation service-animal service-dog workplace-accommodation Did Costco violate the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act by terminating the interactive process with ambiguities they had and not directly eng…
22-579 Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits employment-discrimination enclave-clause federal-enclave federal-jurisdiction federal-property jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope tenth-amendment u.s-constitution Whether the Enclave Clause limits federal jurisdiction over employment discrimination cases where the plaintiff and defendants did not work on or suff…
22-6236 Michele Gray v. GC Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada age-discrimination civil-rights disability-rights eeoc employment-discrimination harassment social-security wrongful-termination Is the dismissal of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security Act, Equal Employment Oppo…
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case Did the lower court err in issuing a directed verdict when a prima facie case of discrimination was established?
22-6056 Susan Kay Slivicki v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation agency-misconduct civil-rights contract-breach defamation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-employment geographic-exclusion non-communication owcp veterans-preference Contract-law,civil-rights,federal-employment,ada,veterans-preference,hippa
22-5944 Charles L. Burgett v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Eighth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-2000e employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discriminat…
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
22-5815 Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii Question not identified
22-5791 Erin Carter v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure employer-discretion employment-discrimination fmla-rights incomplete-discovery incomplete-record judicial-review jury-trial prejudice-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court grants a motion for summary judgment, dismissing an entire cause of action designated fo…
22-5682 Jonathan F. Ramos v. Valmont Industries, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation sign-language-interpretation standing workplace-accessibility Whether the denial of an ASL interpreter for a deaf individual in a legal proceeding violates the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-231 Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms,' 'conditions,' or 'privileges' of employment, or are they limited to 'signific…
22-211 Kelly Vandenberg v. University of Saint Thomas, aka University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied burden-of-proof civil-procedure employment-discrimination pretext pretext-standard prima-facie-case reeves-v-sanderson rule-50 rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the narrow Reeves exceptions apply to Rule 56 summary judgment identically as they do under Rule 50
22-193 Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-31 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer …
22-174 Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Third Circuit 2022-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (57)Relisted (2) civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship Whether the Court should disapprove the Hardison test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations
22-162 Tariq B. Alabbassi v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-time-limit burden-of-proof circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeo-complaint employment-discrimination federal-regulations statute-of-limitations When does the 45-day time limit start under 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1)?
22-147 Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts prima-facie-case protected-class similar-situated summary-judgment supervisor-liability Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication
22-128 Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas Texas 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment Is the denial of a fair trial or appeal rights for a decorated police officer who was a victim of sexual assault and harassment repugnant to the Const…
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees?
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
21-8113 Toya Gibson v. Wayfair, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation genetic-information-discrimination genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act religious-accommodation religious-discrimination wrongful-termination Whether the adverse employment action of wrongful termination in response to a dental disability, the use of genetic information to deny future FMLA l…
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…
21-7896 Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii Question not identified.
21-7851 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
21-1416 Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii Whether the ministerial exception applies to a lay principal who is not a spiritual leader of his religious high school
21-1421 Valerie Kline v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management District of Columbia 2022-05-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination fruit-of-poisonous-tree mcdonnell-douglas pretext prima-facie unlawful-detail Whether an unlawful detail into a position prior to officially filling it is relevant to raise an inference of pretext, when the prima facie stage und…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva…
21-1385 Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment Should the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting test remain in employment discrimination cases involving 42 U.S.C. § 1981?
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, 'Hostile Environment' for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
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 …
21-1301 Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te…
21-1292 S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability Whether public entities can be vicariously liable for ADA-Title-II-violations
21-7399 Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit…
21-7272 Delila Uwasomba v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination employment-interference financial-burden financial-harm job-security judicial-review legal-remedy standing wrongful-termination Whether the Federal and Circuit Court erred in finding it acceptable for Bank of America and its affiliates to remove the petitioner from their positi…
21-1112 Sonya Gorbea v. Verizon New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied ada constructive-termination employment-discrimination job-abandonment pretext ptsd reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations title-vii How can Verizon's dereliction of duty and reckless disregard for necessary medical treatment be acceptable under the ADA/Title VII when Verizon refuse…
21-7085 Kristina Merle Larson v. American Home Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Fourth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance disability-discrimination employment-discrimination interactive-process medical-confidentiality psychiatric-disability reasonable-accommodation retaliation termination workplace-retaliation Why is it okay for the defendant to completely ignore the plaintiff's request for a reasonable accommodation?
21-6842 Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii Where there exists illegal practices in the workplace by a United States federal employer Census 2020-Department of Commerce
21-6690 Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. …
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
21-827 Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra Whether the employee must prove that protected status or activity was a motivating factor or prove that the employer had hostility to military service…
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…
21-748 Chinyere U. Nwoke v. University of Chicago Medical Center Seventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination district-court due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-review motion-to-amend pay-equity standing university-employment Whether the lower courts judged Petitioner's claims correctly
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…
21-671 Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualified t…
21-573 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability disability-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination pro-se-litigation second-amendment termination Whether courts below relitigated issues of disability, legitimate termination, and medical advice contrary to collateral estoppel
21-561 Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim, must the plaintiff show 'circumstances that support an inference of discrimination' by plea…
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
21-5926 Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment Whether the presence of defendants' recorded slurs is indispensable for a discrimination case or if ample evidence of discriminatory actions is suffic…
21-5877 Brian J. Neary v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law age-discrimination article-1 employment-discrimination executive-order federal-excepted-service federal-hiring-authority legislative-authority pathways-program separation-of-powers Has the Executive Branch breached the Separation-of-Powers principle?
21-5824 Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity Reverse-discrimination
21-5643 Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii Can an employer justify zero accountability for wrongful employee discrimination with a federal policy or statute, as a loophole to pressure an employ…
21-359 Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonnell Douglas v. Green's burden-shifting analysis is t…
21-315 Jacquelyn Bouazizi v. Hillsborough County Civil Service Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) age attorney-negligence civil-service eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-pay equitable-tolling fmla gender pro-se-litigation race retaliation Should the Doctrine of Equitable Tolling be expanded?
21-5473 Jameson Rosado v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-service retaliation Whether Jamie was ordered for the FFD to ultimately have him removed from federal service in retaliation for pursuing prior EEO activity
21-144 Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods Washington 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (17)Relisted (9) civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists
21-135 Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable-estoppel can only arise when a defend…
21-138 Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim Whether comparator evidence can support an inference of discrimination if the plaintiff and comparators do not share the same position, duties, and su…
21-123 Marguerite T. Martin v. Teleperformance Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination medical-condition privacy reasonable-accommodation security-breach termination wrongful-termination Whether the plaintiff's anemia condition and privacy concerns were properly considered in the termination of her employment due to a security breach
21-5222 Adrienne Bush v. Kenneth Nathan, Trustee Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 11-usc-522(d)(11)(E) bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption chapter-13 chapter-7 civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination lawsuit-proceeds trustee-discretion wrongful-termination Does 11 USC 522(d)(11)(E) exempt employment-discrimination lawsuits?
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation
21-74 Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii Whether the Clackamas factors apply to whether a shareholder in a law firm may assert claims of race and sex discrimination and retaliation under Titl…
21-5056 Arthur Vincent v. AutoZone Fourth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discipline eeoc employment-discrimination harassment job-assignment retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment Whether AutoZone violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through negligent harassment, discipline, discharge, job assignments, promotions, …
21-9 Vincenza Presti v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination federal-employment retaliation title-vii workplace-discrimination workplace-retaliation Whether the Judicial system can be biased towards federal-employee-petitioners by denying them due-process and a hearing
20-8473 Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii Whether the Plaintiff was provided notice timely of the Summary Judgement ruling?
20-1810 Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the law when the court denied the petitioner's motion to proceed in forma pau…
20-1736 Katrina L. Webster v. Thomas W. Harker, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights deposition-misconduct due-process eeoc eeoc-procedure employment-discrimination evidence-tampering legal-ethics summary-judgment witness-tampering Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant despite evidence that the defendant's counsel improperly directed a dep…
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
20-8107 Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference Did the petitioner seek to get appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor
20-1622 Ramonica M. Luke v. University Health Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 admissible-evidence civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-evidence employment-discrimination honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext-analysis similarly-situated title-vii Pretext-by-discrimination
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is a '…
20-1582 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived due-process employer-policy employment-discrimination liberty-interest stigma stigma-harm summary-judgment wrongful-termination whether-a-plaintiff-has-to-name-similarly-situated-employees-or-present-circumstantial-evidence-of-discriminatory-intent
20-1533 Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2021-05-04 Denied civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii Should Plaintiff Curry been given an Opportunity for Reemployment
20-7875 Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems Eighth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment Whether the Supreme Court will authorize the release of Petitioner's 'complete' Personal File to determine the reason and legitimacy of job terminatio…
20-7725 Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the district and appeals courts erred in overlooking constitutional and civil rights violations
20-1365 In Re Arno P. Kuigoua 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's appeal from summary judgment when the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, i…
20-1373 Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl…
20-1357 Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 must show that the employer's failure to make the requested ac…
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment
20-7531 Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected?
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-7289 Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the factual…
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does 'shall be made free from any discrimination' prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor?
20-7153 Anthony Lonnie Forbes v. SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP 1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act contractual-relationship contractual-relationships employment employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act retaliation section-1981 Where the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits racial discrimination in contractual relationships,…
20-7116 Isabel Del Pino Allen v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College Florida 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeo eeoc-compliance employment-discrimination employment-termination public-institution tenure tenured-professor title-vii Whether Title VI and other Civil Rights and EEO-related federal decrees can be invoked by a publicly-funded college in an effort to 'jump-start' a pro…
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment What standard of proof must courts apply in evaluating summary judgment motions in employment-discrimination cases?
20-6963 F. Allan Midyett v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-criminal federal-employment indian-employment statutory-compliance veterans-affairs Whether the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs can refuse to comply with provisions of 25 U.S.C. Ch. 36 to take adverse acts causing harm…
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to su…
20-950 H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free-speech, whether the court misapplies the but-for causation test in a Title…
20-878 Michael Edwards v. Indiana University Seventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University?
20-813 James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a 'person aggrieved' for purposes of Title VII only if …
20-792 Melinda Beazley Pearson v. City of Augusta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination investigation loudermill-hearing neutral-decisionmaker pretext pretext-analysis public-employment summary-judgment Was it error for the panel to affirm a grant of summary judgment, finding due process had been provided where a challenged demotion had been effected …
20-790 Reginald Eric Sprowl v. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights disparate-treatment employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case summary-judgment Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1978) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis?
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p…
20-780 Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii Does the 'participation' clause protect an employee from a retaliatory defamation suit?
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint…
20-6358 Donna Marie Dawson v. Mary Ann Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-misconduct civil-procedure eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination hr-policies hr-policy legal-procedure workplace-rights Can Mary Ann Valdez violate HR policies and the Americans with Disabilities Act?
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws
20-500 Berlinda A. Madden v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination employment-law evidence material-fact retaliation summary-judgment union-president Whether a sworn affidavit of the Union President that company officials acted in retaliation for having filed an EEO complaint is a genuine issue of m…
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
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5828 Roderick A. Carter v. CPC Logistics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof driver-fatigue employer-admissions employment-discrimination federal-regulations protected-activity retaliation staa-protection trucking-safety whistleblower-protection When an employer admits to a violation in writing to the federal government, should they be held accountable to their words?
20-392 Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police New Jersey 2020-09-25 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar Termination-without-due-process
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-275 Barrington Boyd v. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived blacklisting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination expungement financial-services FINRA finra-form-u5 regulatory-action title-vii Whether large financial services employers should be able to use FINRA Form U5 as a blacklisting tool against former employees who raised discriminati…
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-213 Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against employment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encompasse…
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-181 Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision conflicts with the Thirteenth and Fifth Amendments
20-172 Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same super…
20-5234 Jeremiah Bryant v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination human-rights-act retaliation standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the underlying decision of the D.C. Superior Court based on the Office of Human Rights
20-95 Carolyn Hicks-Washington v. The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination institutional-racism judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct race-discrimination Do the actions of federal judges constitute a conspiracy to interfere and deprive the petitioner of constitutional and civil rights?
20-56 Wen Chiann Yeh v. North Carolina State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination faragher-ellerth faragher-ellerth-rule supervisor-liability title-vii Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to discrimination and harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority …
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t…
20-19 Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-07-14 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military?
20-5043 Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff's employment was unlawful due to language barriers and lack of due process
19-1461 Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (13) civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an 'undue hardship' under Title VII, 42 …
19-8888 Henry Oviedo v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority District of Columbia 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination eeoc-guidelines employment-discrimination hiring national-origin protected-class protected-status qualifications reasonable-employer title-seven workplace-discrimination Whether a factfinder can conclude that a reasonable employer would have hired the protected plaintiff who was significantly better qualified, but this…
19-1388 Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Sixth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an 'undue hardship' in accommodating an emp…
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 …
19-8717 Lance E. Felton v. City of Jackson, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-accommodation disability-rights employment-discrimination interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder pretext reasonable-accommodation termination Whether the City of Jackson, Mississippi failed to accommodate Lance Felton's disability pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act
19-1373 Ming Wei v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-06-12 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination evidence fraud state-hearing Whether Wei's constitutional rights and due process rights were violated in the state proceedings
19-8520 Justin Mohn v. Progressive Insurance Tenth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination pretext-plus pretext-plus-rule prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii Whether a prima facie case and pretext-plus proof of discriminatory animus is sufficient for discovery, summary judgment, or finding employment discri…
19-1295 Rao S. Mandalapu v. Temple University Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination pretext reeves-v-sanderson retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Is it necessary for a plaintiff to show discriminatory or retaliatory 'animus' against a protected category in order to prevent dismissal at the summa…
19-8458 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Phillip Jordan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection public-accommodations race-discrimination standing Whether the petitioner's complaint of discrimination based on race, color, religion, familial status, and/or national origin was sufficient to survive…
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…
19-8369 LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci…
19-1170 Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent issue being raised
19-7997 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims against the respondent company for hostile work environment, retaliation, and racia…
19-8010 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hiring-process job-referral performance-review pre-qualification prequalification termination Whether Appellant was discriminated against in the initial prequalification process?
19-1121 Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii Is the Fifth Circuit's restrictive 'ultimate adverse employment action' doctrine in conflict with Title VII protections?
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review Did the First Circuit Judge err and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary perio…
19-1109 Timothy C. Yoakum v. Sabre GLBL Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights employment employment-discrimination performance-review summary-judgment title-vii Does the issuance of an undeserved Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and undeserved employee performance review become actionable under Title VII as …
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts are correct to apply Nassar to FMLA cases
19-1089 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other students?
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination?
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
19-950 Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter Must a plaintiff seek a stay to avoid preclusion of later claims?
19-888 Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP New York 2020-01-16 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal
19-7158 Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC Second Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote
19-817 Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
19-724 Keith Y. Arakaki v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the four discrete events Petitioner raised in opposing Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment constituted adverse actions in accordance with…
19-717 Michael J. Sands v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection medical-diagnosis medical-fraud mental-health postal-service termination Did the United States Postal Service violate my Constitutional Rights when the Postal Service chose my mental diagnosis (difference of Medical Opinion…
19-6866 Sheila Jackson v. Garda CL East, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeco employment-discrimination fair-labor-standards-act gender-discrimination overtime-pay retaliation standing workplace-rights How can I be terminated for something that wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination?
19-6536 Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case?
19-549 Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scrutiny under the federal dis…
19-535 Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company Second Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial-discrimination,retaliation,title-vii,42-usc-1981
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-500 Ameer Siddiqui v. NetJets Aviation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) but-for but-for-test causation-standard civil-rights comparator-analysis comparators employment-discrimination pretext pretext-evaluation reasonable-inference retaliation retaliation-claims section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the 'but for' test, or is a reasonable inference sufficient?
19-6291 Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Firm, LLP District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment title-vii tortious-interference Whether District of Columbia court of Appeals can ignore instances of retaliation under Title VII and other serious violations
19-6242 Imanol Pineda Penaloza v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination question-not-identified racial-discrimination reasonable-person title-vii Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'reasonable person' standard in evaluating the plaintiff's claim of racial discrimination unde…
19-6198 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction federal-money fraud labor-dispute labor-law negligence standing worker-compensation worker-endangerment worker-rights workplace-safety Whether the injured workers of United Airlines, Inc. were denied their right to be heard in court regarding allegations of fraud, negligence, and work…
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to terminate an at-will employee for filing a harassment complaint?
19-371 Stephen S. Wise Temple v. Julie Su California 2019-09-19 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-exercise free-exercise functional-approach hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc judicial-interpretation ministerial-exception religious-education religious-institutions transmitting-faith Whether courts should apply a functional approach to the ministerial exception that does not punish religious institutions for employing non-adherents…
19-348 St. James School v. Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Judgment Issued Amici (4) civil-courts civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religion-clauses Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl…
19-267 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl…
19-269 Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim?
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii When, if ever, can a magistrate judge intentionally violate FRCP 15(a)(1)(B) in denying a timely motion to amend a complaint?
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…
19-262 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment-immunity ada-title-vii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-jurisdiction employment employment-discrimination federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction pleadings retaliation right-to-sue standing Whether the lower courts' refusal to consider EEOC's right-to-sue letter and her statements as part of pleadings, and her request and leave for amendm…
19-233 Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of the Sergeant at Arms 820 F.2d 490 (D…
19-5621 David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation and…
19-5594 Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion in granting summary judgment under Rule 60(b) and denying the appellant's motion for summary judgment…
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace?
19-178 Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories Tenth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv…
19-133 Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury?
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency
19-83 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. District of Columbia 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii How does the McDonnell Douglas framework apply in a Title VII and ADEA case involving temporary employment agencies?
19-5116 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination Whether employees can be protected when an institution can formulate a false narrative for violation of company policy, even when the employee is prov…
19-5119 Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii Whether a court can properly grant summary judgment by accepting an employer's disputed claim that a long-term, older female employee was a poor perfo…
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims
18A1367 McLeod Health, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure consent-decree eeoc-enforcement employment-discrimination judicial-review settlement-negotiations Whether an employer can be compelled to engage in settlement negotiations with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission despite ongoing litigation
18A1323 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation eeoc-charges employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-discharge sexual-harassment Whether an employer's alleged pattern of discriminatory conduct, including disability accommodation denials, sexual harassment, and retaliatory discha…
18-9663 In Re Lorcan Kilroy 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should continue to require non-disabled plaintiffs to prove t…
18-9622 Essie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination personnel-practices retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment in McDaniel's retaliation claim was proper
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…
18A1280 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-review Whether a state agency's denial of an employment-related claim constitutes a violation of an individual's constitutional due process rights
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
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
18-9410 Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims…
18-1450 Horacio Sequeira v. Gate Safe, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response Waived ada-amendments-act-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination false-statement medical-restrictions procedural-rules scheduling-order summary-judgment Whether a request to amend a complaint and to modify a scheduling order should be granted whenever a plaintiff complies with Fed. R. Civ. P.15 (c) (1)…
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII
18-1426 Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Has the McDonnell Douglas framework been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied?
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
18-1401 David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
18-9077 Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom…
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a…
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin…
18-8553 Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a…
18-1204 Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response Waived discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discrete …
18-1161 Regena Bryant v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii Determining whether employer's failure to rebut prima facie case of discrimination mandates judgment for plaintiff
18-8315 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5-usc-2302 age-discrimination civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee in-vitro-fertilization medical-leave probationary-employment sex-discrimination termination-rights Shall the Court immediately reinstate back to work a Federal employee who was fired for an attempt to get pregnant, for being discriminated against se…
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
18-8288 Derrick Allen v. Envirogreen Landscape Professionals, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-rights conflict-of-circuits due-process eeoc-decision employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-question judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings judicial-review lower-court-review supervisory-powers Can the US Supreme Court review at their judicial discretion for the compelling reason
18-8290 Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect the Plaintiffs from discrimination and r…
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely perfo…
18-1089 Annette Benjamin v. Felder Services, L.L.C., dba Oxford Health and Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights direct-evidence disparate-treatment employment-act employment-discrimination employment-law poor-performance pretext summary-judgment workplace-discrimination Whether a court may properly grant summary judgment in an Age Discrimination in Employment Act case by accepting as true the employer's disputed claim…
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation
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
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment How should a court handle an EEOC Complaint? What information should be formally on the Complaint for the court to review?
18-1032 Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation Determining whether an air carrier employee's AIR21 discrimination complaint can be subject to a pre-dispute arbitration provision
18-7763 Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii Whether the dismissal of petitioner's EEOC retaliation claims without allowing for agreed arbitration violates the Federal Arbitration Act or civil ri…
18-7601 Joseph Chhim v. Golden Nuggett Lake Charles, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-discrimination civil-rights computer-assessment due-process eligibility-requirements employment-discrimination equal-protection facility-supervisor hiring-practices pretext pretext-claim Did Defendant Golden Nugget discriminate against Plaintiff when it hired 300 employees with different eligibility requirements based on a discriminato…
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. First Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial
18-942 Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Relisted (5) adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer Whether it is a 'materially adverse action' under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re…
18-928 Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff
18-6823 James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii Was the Plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII civil rights compromised or violated?
18-662 Mary McDonald v. City of Wichita, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived adverse-action but-for-causation but-for-cause employment-discrimination jury-instruction jury-instructions predominant-cause retaliation sole-cause sole-cause-standard standard-of-proof title-vii Does a court err by instructing a jury that a plaintiff must prove that retaliation is 'the' but-for cause of the adverse action, rather than 'a' but-…
18-634 Aed El-Saba v. University of South Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure employment-discrimination national-origin-discrimination pretext pretext-analysis retaliation summary-judgment supervisory-power termination Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment despite the district court's failure to properly analyze…
18-624 Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services Second Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII
18-6690 Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination Does the Petitioner have the right to sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even after he has received his letter of right to sue?
18-6644 Jingyuan Feng v. Sheena Komenda, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination employment-discrimination,civil-rights,title-vii,p equal-employment performance-evaluation pretext retaliation title-vii Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions
18-6517 Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii Whether the fashion industry has been exempted from the law of equal employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
18-6501 Carl A. Robertson v. Interactive College of Technology, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-theory civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidentiary-rules mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext pro-se pro-se-litigant scheduling-order standing summary-judgment title-vii Should a pro se litigant's First Proposed Heightened Amended Complaint be unfairly denied by courts based on not following Scheduling Order, undue del…
18-6490 Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite its twi…
18-525 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis Fifth Circuit 2018-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit
18-480 R. S. Raghavendra v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-opportunity federal-arbitration-act first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice recusal-law standing Whether the Appeals Court erred in denying the Writ of Mandamus petition to reverse the permanent injunction issued by non-recusing District Court Jud…
18-6321 Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed motive
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Whether the petitioner's workers' compensation claim was improperly denied
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se…
18-5981 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights New York 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii Should the lower court have denied full discovery for the purpose of violating Title VII?
18-5920 Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination Whether the appeals court ruling conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions on important matters and cannot survive application of the correct le…
18-5883 Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation Whether lower courts can dismiss disability-related occupational injury civil complaints by omitting essential facts and misconstruing allegations, cr…
18-245 Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain
18-5713 Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency District of Columbia 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration
18-5670 Margaret Campise v. New York Commissioner of Labor New York 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vii civil-rights constructive-termination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-environment hostile-work-environment sexual-harassment workplace workplace-rights Are the lower courts above the law?
18-5411 Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation Was there a legal obligation for company Jofaz Transportation, Inc. under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave for an employee wi…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of 'religious institution' in the ministerial exception require a faith-based institution with a hierarchy of ministers?
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (14) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender Whether the word 'sex' in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination 'because of . . . sex,' 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant 'gender identity' and inclu…
18-94 Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discriminatio…
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 …
18-28 Robert J. Balding v. Sunbelt Steel Texas, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied ada-protections adverse-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination family-and-medical-leave-act family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights pretext protected-leave retaliation workplace-retaliation Whether an employer violates an employee's FMLA-or-ADA-rights by interfering-with-retaliation-against-denying-accommodations-and-taking-adverse-action
18-5138 Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied?
18-9 Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether strict scrutiny should apply in reviewing lower courts' dismissal of Title VII complaint alleging discrimination, unfair pay, and retaliation
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment Whether a public employer may legally retaliate against an employee for making good faith reports of workplace misconduct and potential HIPAA violatio…
24A61 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado Presumed Complete administrative-law antitrust-violations charter-schools civil-rights employment-discrimination state-agency-action Whether a state civil rights agency and local school district can be held liable for alleged antitrust violations and employment discrimination in den…
25A287 New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. New York Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-law sovereign-immunity state-agency transit-authority Whether state-owned transit authorities are entitled to sovereign immunity from employment discrimination lawsuits under federal civil rights statutes