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25-6360 Fatima Touijer v. Providence Housing Authority, et al. Rhode Island 2025-12-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-authority 1. Whether the Rhode Island state courts erred in treating Petitioner's claims of racial, religious, and disability-based discrimination under the Fai…
25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25A365 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-injury disparate-impact fair-housing-act water-liens Whether a federal court may certify a class action under Rule 23 when some class members lack Article III standing due to absence of concrete injury i…
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis…
25A211 Tamika D. Pless v. State Employees' Credit Union. et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights eviction fair-housing-act housing-discrimination irreparable-harm pro-se-litigation Whether federal courts can provide emergency injunctive relief to prevent a potentially discriminatory eviction under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.…
24-7154 Michele Kimberly Harris, et vir v. Springfield Housing Authority, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP administrative-law billing-dispute civil-rights fair-housing-act forma-pauperis judicial-procedure Whether Judge Beth Phillips correctly ruled on a forma pauperis application and applied appropriate case law in a civil rights dispute involving city …
24A726 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. Denver Housing Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination judicial-accountability systemic-discrimination title-vi Whether federal courts can recognize systemic discrimination as a cognizable legal claim under Title VI and the Fair Housing Act when challenging hous…
24-633 Matthew McCurley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response Waived bid-rigging contract-law fair-housing-act housing-discrimination privity third-party-beneficiary Whether the signing of Form HUD-9548 establishes privity and constitutes a violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA)
24-6073 Earlando Samuel v. Delaware County Housing Authority, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied IFP disability-rights fair-housing-act judicial-discretion motion-to-alter-judgment procedural-due-process retaliation-clause Whether the lower court erred in denying appointment of counsel under the Fair Housing Act's retaliation clause and whether the Third Circuit Court of…
24-558 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied fair-housing-act hostile-environment jury-trial religious-discrimination rule-50b seventh-amendment Whether the 9th Circuit erred in overturning a jury verdict in a Fair Housing Act case involving religious discrimination by a homeowners' association
24-385 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees canon-of-judicial-conduct fair-housing-act fraud-allegations judicial-sanctions procedural-errors Whether the Court of Appeals erred in imposing sanctions without demonstrating frivolous claims and in denying motions to investigate alleged fraud in…
24-237 Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. Colorado 2024-09-03 Denied attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation Whether an HOA may require intrusive medical record disclosure as a condition for a reasonable accommodation exemption from a mask mandate under the F…
24-63 Kalvin Schanz v. City of Otsego, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights degree-of-aid fair-housing-act interference intimidation protected-activity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fair Housing Act's prohibition on intimidation or interference with a person who has 'aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise…
24-5020 Velina M. Johnson v. Inland Residential Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-stay civil-procedure-60b-motion due-process fair-housing-act fraud-on-the-court housing-discrimination housing-retaliation judicial-bias rule-60-motion shotgun-pleading willful-violation-of-automatic-stay Whether a motion to vacate the court of appeals judgment is proper when the court of appeals defied its prior decision on the definition of a 'shotgun…
23-1340 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof civil-rights-litigation defendant-liability disparate-impact fair-housing-act legitimate-business-purpose prima-facie-burden statistical-disparity Whether a plaintiff relying on a disparate-impact theory of liability under the Fair Housing Act carries her prima facie burden by showing only a pree…
23-7618 Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings Question not identified.
23A924 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination policy-challenge statistical-evidence Whether the Fair Housing Act's disparate-impact theory requires a robust causal connection between a challenged policy and discriminatory effects, and…
23-6253 Larry D. Ford v. American Homes 4 Rent, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent due-process fair-housing-act housing housing-providers statutory-interpretation tenant-discrimination tenant-liability third-party-liability Whether discriminatory intent is required for liability under the Fair Housing Act Sections 3604(b) and 3617
23-268 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether an FHAA disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reasonably known of the disab…
23-134 Suellen Klossner v. IADU Table Mound MHP, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Amici (1) alternative-income-sources civil-rights disability disability-rights equal-opportunity fair-housing-act housing-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rent-payment tenant-rights Whether the Fair Housing Act requires landlords to accept rent from alternative sources for tenants who are too disabled to work
23-71 City of Costa Mesa, California v. SoCal Recovery, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada-disabilities americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination fair-housing-act major-life-activities public-comments regarded-as-disabled standing substantial-limitation Can entities derive standing to sue for disability discrimination without proving their individual residents are substantially impaired?
22-7450 Derry Sykes v. New York City Housing Authority Second Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidence fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination judicial-discretion mold mold-remediation standing Whether the district court abused its discretion and made a clear error of law in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure state a claim under th…
22-7297 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Allred Unit Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing-act standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims under the Fair Housin…
22-816 The School of the Ozarks, Inc., dba College of the Ozarks v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing enforcement executive-order fair-housing-act gender-identity notice-and-comment regulatory-enforcement standing Whether a notice-and-comment violation, on its own, can establish Article III standing for a regulated entity within the applicable zone of interests
22-5307 Ronald C. Williams v. William Hutchings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights discriminatory-conduct fair-housing-act property-interests standing statutory-rights Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under the Fair Housing Act have been violated by the respondent's alleged discriminatory conduct in represen…
21-6976 Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing Whether the application of the Fair Housing Act to disparate impact claims is valid
21-680 Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response Waived consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re…
21-231 Julie Ellen Wartluft, fka Julie Ellen Bartels, et al. v. The Milton Hershey School, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights civil-rights-act consideration consideration-definition disability disability-discrimination fair-housing fair-housing-act housing-discrimination rental-definition renter student-housing Whether participation in a mandatory chore program at a student home is 'consideration' under the Fair Housing Act sufficient for the child to qualify…
21-5374 Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination Whether Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch Manager denied Plaintiff access to servicing her federal home loan due to racial discrimination
20-1797 Fedie R. Redd v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination disparate-impact fair-housing-act foreclosure housing-discrimination mortgage-lending property-rights Did the respondents engage in discriminatory practices that had a disparate impact on Black Americans under the Fair Housing Act?
20-7706 JaKara Vester v. Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. Delaware 2021-04-12 Denied IFP autism disability-discrimination disparate-treatment fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability pretext-discrimination reasonable-accommodation special-needs Whether the Fair Housing Act requires housing providers to reasonably accommodate a disabled resident's request for a fence to protect their autistic …
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws?
20-5876 In Re Paula Idele Keller 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 9th-circuit-appeal civil-procedure fair-housing-act loan-modification mortgage mortgage-modification private-right-of-action real-estate real-estate-transaction standing statutory-interpretation Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiffs loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of 'real estate-related transaction' under…
20-14 Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law Whether an owner of real property has Article III standing to challenge a municipality's zoning law that prohibits the owner's proposed religious land…
19-1249 Phyllis Davis v. Echo Valley Condominium Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure fair-housing-act federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice-pleading pleading-standards state-law summary-judgment twombly Whether the liberal notice pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) ceases…
19-7613 Wanda E. Smith-Jeter v. ArtSpace Everett Lofts Condominium Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act prima-facie-case pro-se retaliation standing summary-judgment Does Petitioner, pro se, WANDA E.Smith-Jeter present a prima facie case for retaliation under the Fair Housing Act against the Respondents, ARTSPACE E…
19-688 Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a 'logical bond' between the alleged statutory violation a…
19-675 Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. City of Miami, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1) causal-chain civil-rights directness-principles fair-housing-act injury injury-recovery proximate-cause standing statutory-violation Whether the Fair Housing Act's proximate-cause element requires more than just some 'logical bond' between a statutory violation and the claimed injur…
19-6494 Sandra J. Staten v. D.R. Horton Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credit-opportunity-act discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination racial-discrimination veterans-benefits veterans-rights Whether due process was afforded to the Petitioner
19-497 The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the racia…
19-5238 Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing…
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
18-1217 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the Fair Housing Ac…
18-8137 Tanya Steele v. John Pedro, Jr., et al. First Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-harassment civil-rights due-process fair-housing-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte Whether the First Circuit Appeals Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction despite the judge's sua sponte order overriding the lega…
18-8086 Steven Thomason v. OneWest Bank, FSB, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-act-fha loan-servicer mandamus mortgage-loan-modification mortgage-modification real-estate-transaction right-of-action standing Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiff's loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of 'real estate-related transaction' unde…
18-871 Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde…
18-626 Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Dismissed circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability Whether discriminatory intent is required under the Fair Housing Act Sections 3604(b) and 3617
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the Fair Housing Act
18-279 Frank Konarski, dba FGPJ Apartments and Development, et al. v. City of Tucson, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights commerce-clause competitive-restraint due-process fair-housing-act interstate-commerce municipal-action rental-transactions restraint-of-trade standing takings vexatious-litigant Whether housing rental businesses are part of the federally protected domain of interstate commerce
18-5853 Dorothy Binns v. City of Marietta, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Lower Courts violated any of these or other pertinent Laws, or rules, Overlooked, misapplied, neglected or made any vital legal errors in …
18-231 New West, L.P., et al. v. City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived beacon-theatres civil-rights civil-rights-act collateral-estoppel due-process equitable-claims fair-housing-act jury-trial parklane-hosiery When a single district court Judge has control over all legal and equitable claims before it in a single proceeding, even though the proceeding involv…