employment-retaliation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-824 Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Ohio 2026-01-13 Pending antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards 1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established antiretaliation standards —specifically the misapplication of the McDonnell Douglas burden-…
25A362 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech Whether speech condemning racist memes constitutes a matter of public concern under the First Amendment's protections for public employee speech
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence
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…
24A532 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete business-tort employment-retaliation injunctive-relief intellectual-property software-misappropriation trade-secrets Whether a technology company can be enjoined from commercially exploiting allegedly misappropriated intellectual property when the plaintiff claims th…
23-1283 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation Whether 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1) prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who has exercised her rights under the FMLA
23-473 James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage an…
23-363 Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the Fir…
23-193 Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings dismissal due-process employment-retaliation freedom-of-speech judicial-recusal retaliation Should assigned District court judge recuse himself due to conflict of interest?
22-6723 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to 'Interstate Telephonic and Email—Computer Server Based C…
22-197 Yvonne T. Massaro v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived adea age-discrimination burlington-northern causation causation-standard continuing-violation discrete-acts employment-retaliation hostile-work-environment pattern-and-practice retaliation Whether the Burlington Northern standard applies to ADEA retaliatory-harassment-claims
22-34 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Marshall University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-procedure discrimination-claim employment-retaliation federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-proceedings record-on-appeal standing supervisory-power Whether the lower courts have departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to provide Petitioner the record on appe…
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment be reversed due to it was granted adversely, improperly, and unconstitutional
19-893 Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-7892 Sheila J. Halousek v. California Public Employees' Retirement System California 2019-02-11 Denied IFP autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-retaliation osha osha-protections privacy privacy-rights whistleblower workplace-safety What is required for the consistent application of civil rights to be 'free and independent,' 'enjoying and defending life and liberty,' and 'pursuing…
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme…
18-122 Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing Whether candidacy for political office, standing alone, is a protected right under the First Amendment