employment-termination

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25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest 1. Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminatin…
25-282 Carina Conerly v. Sharif Tarpin California 2025-09-10 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination government-conspiracy 1. WHETHER, The California Supreme Court Erred in denying Petitioner's Request For Review? 2. WHETHER, The Third Appellate District Court Erred by no…
25-5541 Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal 1. Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using the summary proced…
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations 1. Should Petitioner have been foreclosed from challenging the alleged fraud in Federal Court pursuant to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act be…
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly wh…
24A417 James A. Daly v. City of DeSoto, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete employment-termination first-amendment free-speech-rights public-employee speech-retaliation temporal-proximity Whether a public employer can terminate a public employee's employment based on First Amendment-protected speech that occurred more than a year prior …
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether the respondent's termination of the petitioner for observing the Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath day (Saturday) constitutes religious-discrimina…
23A837 Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. Colorado 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization Whether the church-autonomy doctrine precludes a jury from determining whether a religious employer's stated reason for terminating an employee is pre…
23A552 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission Massachusetts 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete contractual-breach due-process employment-termination fair-hearing false-reporting medical-staff-privileges Whether a hospital can falsely report a physician's employment status to state and federal authorities in violation of contractual bylaws and due proc…
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 …
23-326 Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's 'unprotected speech
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
22-7082 Crystal G. Jordan v. Atlanta Public Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights damages due-process employment-termination fmla fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation temporal-proximity workplace-discrimination Is an email proof of pretext for unlawful retaliation?
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-446 Cheryl Prince-Moore v. Texas Dow Employees Credit Union Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights health-benefits job-protection statutory-violation termination workplace-discrimination Whether an employer's immediate termination of an employee's employment without any prior offense or communication violates the Family and Medical Lea…
22-35 Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property Whether the burden of proof with clear and convincing evidence was improperly imposed on the plaintiff
21-1151 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia discharged appellant without due process
21-286 Abeba Mekonnen v. OTG Management, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived discrimination-claims employee-manual employment-laws employment-termination fair-pay-act ledbetter-fair-pay-act mystery-shopper mystery-shopper-report performance-evaluation procedural-due-process termination wage-hour-law Whether employers can terminate employees based on a 'Mystery Shopper Score'
20-1399 Andrew J. Capul, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied coerced-resignation due-process employment-termination loudermill municipal-employment pre-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-rights property-interest property-rights Whether a municipal employer's coerced resignation of an employee with a protected property interest in continued employment requires pre-deprivation …
20-7595 Randy T. Thomas v. Steve Stanson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-leave medical-leave termination workplace-discrimination Whether the Petitioner's protections under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) were violated by the termination of employment without due process …
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
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…
20-732 David Wyche v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Second Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-review civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-termination occupational-safety prima-facie-case termination whistleblower whistleblower-protection workplace-safety Under the OSH Act of 1970 Do I fit the criteria as a whistleblower
20-6158 Clara Lewis Brockington v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP discrimination due-process education-requirements employment-termination equal-protection master's-degree test-administration workers-compensation workplace-discrimination why-was-plaintiff-terminated-from-employment
20-346 D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing Whether the Fourth Circuit should have exercised jurisdiction and considered evidence regarding qualified immunity
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability?
19-935 Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction Whether courts should distinguish between 'terminations' and 'layoffs' under the WARN Act by applying an objective standard that examines the employee…
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period Whether the Second Circuit's holding that Ms. Castro's termination was based entirely on allegations of job-related misconduct is consistent with the …
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy rendered him disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-537 Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Whether a reasonable jury could have found that the petitioner's termination was in retaliation for whistleblowing
18-5401 Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations Gender-discrimination