employment-status

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1239 Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an 'employee' within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)?
24A206 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete employment-status fair-labor-standards-act inmate-labor minimum-wage statutory-interpretation work-detail Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires compensation for inmate labor performed at a government-operated recycling facility outside of a detenti…
24A7 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-determination employment-status judicial-review tenth-circuit worker-classification Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits judicial review of a Department of Labor determination regarding worker classification and employment…
23-5367 Rebecca Wu v. Twin Rivers Unified School District California 2023-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment california-law civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employment-status misclassification public-employee tenure tenure-classification Does the United States Constitution allow for an Indefinite probationary classification in California law of a public employee or Teacher
21-443 William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the term 'employee' in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) includes someone who is no longer an employee when the alleged retaliation takes place
20-8159 Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law Does a county jail deputy qualify as a 'state employee'?
20-1500 Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e…
20-1305 Douglas J. Holdings, Inc., et al. v. Joy Eberline, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Amici (2) all-circumstances discrete-tasks employee-classification employee-status employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act intern-status labor-law student-intern-trainee workplace-rights Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires a court to consider all the circumstances of the parties' relationship, or only those discrete tasks ide…
19-7121 Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split Whether the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions in the City of Chicago violates due-process
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's finding that a worker is an employee under the common-law test should be reviewed for clear error, hybrid standard, or de…
18-6478 In Re Inzel Gaitor 2018-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-status judicial-review legislative-repeal public-contracts public-service separation-of-powers standing state-agency state-government statutory-construction statutory-provision When legislatures of a state repeal members, employees, and expenses of a state-created agency, can the agency members, employees, and expenses remain…