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25A844 Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application dei-policy employment-selection hostile-work-environment race-discrimination section-1981 workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25A614 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary judgment ruling contravenes Supreme Court precedents governing employment discrimination claims under Title VII a…
25-434 Timothy Ryan Gove v. Sargento Foods, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2) administrative-investigation civil-rights corporate-liability employment-discrimination federal-regulations hostile-work-environment 1. If management of a company orders and directs activities outside of its facilities listed under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(c) or framing-up an/or under…
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
24-7214 Anthony J. Woods v. N'Gai Smith Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied IFP article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process hostile-work-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether Anthony J. Woods had Article III Standing to petition the court to redress his grievances under the U.S. Constitution 1S* Amendment?
24-893 Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying a rehearing en banc regarding a whistleblower's hostile work environment claim against the Department of …
24-794 Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived actionable-conduct discrete-acts employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-harassment statute-of-limitations Was it an error of law for the Appeals Court to misapply the Supreme Court's Morgan standard in evaluating the timeliness and sufficiency of a hostile…
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i…
24-603 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision regarding DEA employment discrimination claims under Title VII and discover…
24-6037 Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination, hostile work environment, and failure to accommodate und…
24-399 Helen Allen v. Ford Motor Company Seventh Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) employment-law first-amendment hostile-work-environment racial-harassment summary-judgment workplace-discrimination Whether evidence of workplace harassment, discrimination, and retaliation constitutes admissible evidence warranting reversal of summary judgment
23-1238 Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder v. Austin Peay State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-state-law employment-law hostile-work-environment motion-to-amend motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading reasonable-person retaliation retaliation-claim Whether Petitioner's claim for retaliation required her to prove she suffered severe or pervasive conduct by her supervisor rather than conduct which …
23-7531 Tiffany P. Range v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-representation pro-se settlement sexual-harassment standing How can I settle out with the courts or negotiate an agreement to be made whole?
23-1031 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work-environment case and eliminate from consideration…
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-891 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii Whether the Fifth Circuit may disregard the doctrine of continuing violations and instead adopt a discrete-act factor test requiring subjective intent…
23-6731 Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony Defendant's-admission-of-guilt-overridden
23A647 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct Whether Title VII permits a hostile work environment claim based on allegations of unwanted physical contact and sexual harassment by a supervisor and…
23-6427 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP agency-accountability civil-rights due-process employee-rights hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-retaliation Multiple Retaliation by a Human Services Agency
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation Whether the law of the case doctrine precludes a successor judge's reconsideration of prior interlocutory orders absent some altered circumstance, and…
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can …
22-7448 Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some…
22-7380 Toivania Ereachia Gill v. TBG Food Acquisition Corp. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constructive-discharge due-process equal-protection hostile-work-environment legal-procedure standing Did the United States Western District of Virginia Court dismiss Plaintiff's claim of constructive-discharge prematurely when the burden-of-proof on t…
22-5815 Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii Question not identified
22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Whether an appellate court is required to remand a case to the district court when the appellate court determines the district court used erroneous le…
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
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, 'Hostile Environment' for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar Whether the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled employe…
20-1711 Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2021-06-11 Denied attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation Whether the denial of a motion to intervene violated the petitioner's due process rights
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII requires a plaintiff to prove sex was a 'motivating factor' rather than a 'but for' cause of the cha…
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii Question not identified
20-1004 Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII claim to a trier of fact
20-341 Natalie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived ada-constructive-discharge ada-essential-functions ada-hostile-work-environment ada-reasonable-accommodation ada-telework ada-undue-hardship constructive-discharge disability-discrimination essential-job-functions hostile-work-environment medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether the reasonableness standard articulated in Barnett requires that, a denial or removal of telework or other normally reasonable accommodation b…
20-172 Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same super…
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t…
19-8398 Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. Michigan 2020-05-05 Denied IFP civil-rights employment employment-law hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability retaliation sexual-harassment workplace workplace-abuse Must a court overlook coworkers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile environme…
19-7997 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims against the respondent company for hostile work environment, retaliation, and racia…
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Montgomery County, MD Code of Human Rights were unla…
19-380 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation Whether a federal court may grant relief from judgment under Rule 60(b) for legal error
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace?
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5192 Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii Is a plaintiff's prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national-origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonab…
18A1323 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation eeoc-charges employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-discharge sexual-harassment Whether an employer's alleged pattern of discriminatory conduct, including disability accommodation denials, sexual harassment, and retaliatory discha…
18A1286 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence Whether a state university official is entitled to qualified immunity when allegations of workplace violence and hostile work environment are raised i…
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Continuing violation exception to Title VII limitation period
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII
18-1204 Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response Waived discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discrete …
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment How should a court handle an EEOC Complaint? What information should be formally on the Complaint for the court to review?
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2
18-624 Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services Second Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII
18-6476 Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. Michigan 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse Must a court overlook co-workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile environm…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-5670 Margaret Campise v. New York Commissioner of Labor New York 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vii civil-rights constructive-termination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-environment hostile-work-environment sexual-harassment workplace workplace-rights Are the lower courts above the law?
18-71 Bernard T. Canete v. Barnabas Health System, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights employment-act hostile-work-environment military-status military-status-discrimination national-origin-discrimination race-discrimination summary-judgment Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary-judgment-standard
18-5138 Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied?
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment Whether a public employer may legally retaliate against an employee for making good faith reports of workplace misconduct and potential HIPAA violatio…