employment-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5495 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness Whether the Supreme Court should provide counsel for an indigent plaintiff and hold the judiciary accountable for potential due process violations in …
25-5298 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether a federal employee's speech reporting unsafe conditions and potential misconduct is protected under the First Amendment and whether agency ret…
25-5143 Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, …
24-400 Jennifer Tom v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment-rights ninth-circuit-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Can the Supreme Court allow the Ninth Circuit's decision to stand in a case involving termination of a disabled employee by the Social Security Admini…
23-1088 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-rights government-liability standing Can public employees of a county jail join as a class to sue their employing county under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to force compliance with state-mandated safet…
23-760 John Baker, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining disciplinary-process due-process employment employment-rights family-medical-leave-act fmla-compliance labor-law medical-certification statutory-interpretation statutory-protections Whether an employee is prejudiced when an employer substitutes a contractual disciplinary process for compliance with the individual's statutory prote…
23-70 Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
22-7143 Xunxian Liu v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action agency-policy civil-rights due-process employment-rights federal-employment notice performance-improvement performance-improvement-plan procedural-rights Whether the DHHS violated Petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, and employment-rights by issuing a performance-improvement-plan and removing Petitio…
22-445 Thomas P. Harwood, III v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4312 disability-discrimination disabled-veteran employment-rights escalator-principle job-reinstatement qualification reemployment service-member userra Does 38 U.S.C. § 4312 entitle a disabled service member to prompt reemployment and help to become qualified for the escalator position, or can the emp…
21-1213 Michael Broaden v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4311 employment-rights federal-agencies federal-agency job-qualification job-qualifications military-discrimination military-status-discrimination national-importance uniformed-services-employment uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig veterans-protection Whether federal agencies can formulate job qualifications that violate military-status-discrimination laws or refuse to credit equivalent military exp…
21-6794 John W. Winningham, Jr. v. City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-rights federal-action federal-civil-rights-act kidnapping kidnapping-robbery property-rights robbery section-1983 Whether kidnapping and robbery can be considered legal under Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Federal Protected Civil Rights, Liberties, Property and Empl…
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Does the Executive Order violate the substantive due process rights of New York City public-school teachers whose sole employer is the DOE by preventi…
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…
21-777 Blake Edward Halfacre v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law employment-rights exclusive-provisions federal-employees federal-employment-compensation-act federal-tort-claims-act light-duty-job light-duty-job-offer united-states-court-of-appeals workers-compensation Are the 'exclusive provisions' in the FECA (Federal Employment Compensation Act) applicable, or available to Federal Employees who also have no formal…
21-6421 Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. Virginia 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation Question not identified
21-672 Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation Second Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination Whether the FMLA prohibits an employer from refusing to restore an employee to work when the employee has timely requested restoration and satisfied a…
20-7562 Kamme O v. Texas A&M University and System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-rights gender-bias legal-representation standing whistleblower-protection workplace-discrimination Are employment-rights-for-everyone-or-just-lawyers?
20-1229 James W. Robertson, Sr. v. Intratek Computer, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-scheme arbitration-enforcement employment-rights federal-contract government-subcontractor mandatory-arbitration non-waiver-provision statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Does mandatory compelled arbitration of claims under 41 U.S.C. § 4712 disrupt the administrative scheme set up by Congress to remedy and enforce viola…
19-586 Devona Hollingsworth v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied due-process employment-rights federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board military-service opm-regulations probationary-period reemployment-rights termination uniformed-services userra Are USERRA's reemployment rights applicable to federal employees during their probationary period?
19-467 Chixapkaid Donald Michael Pavel v. University of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived confrontation cross-examination due-process employment-rights public-university sexual-harassment tenure termination union Do due-process rights include confronting and cross-examining accuser?
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)?
18-8613 Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. District of Columbia 2019-03-28 Denied IFP antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging copyright infringement, patent infringement, and fraud
18-6657 Mohsen Khoshmood v. DC HQ Housing Authority District of Columbia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities civil-rights constitutional-violations discrimination due-process employment employment-rights government-services housing-authority housing-discrimination What is the issue being raised?
18-251 Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2018-08-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o…
18-12 Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (12) coaches constitutional-rights employment-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech public-employment public-forum public-school religious-expression school-speech teachers tinker-v-des-moines Whether public school teachers and coaches retain any First Amendment rights when at work and in the general presence of' students