intentional-discrimination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-794 Jordan Spatz v. Regents of the University of California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights intentional-discrimination medical-residency private-right-of-action 1. Does the 1975 Age Discrimination Act apply to applications for matriculation in the medical residency match process, to prohibit discrimination bas…
25A110 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25A109 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
24-6151 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination injunctive-relief intentional-discrimination medical-education rehabilitation-act Whether, under Sec. 504 and Title III, a student with disabilities may obtain as relief an injunction permitting him to restart his medical education …
24-523 A. W., By and Through J. W., et al. v. Coweta County School System, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights compensatory-damages disability-rights emotional-distress intentional-discrimination Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act allows victims of intentional discrimination to recover compensatory damages for emotional dis…
24-5422 MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied IFP employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance "For the purpose of Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, does a state employer's refusal to take a required step for the hiring of a person beca…
23-7659 Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights contract-rights due-process equal-justice intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case procedural-due-process section-1981 summary-judgment trial Section 1981 of Title 42 provides "all persons " in the United States "the same right " "to make and enforce contracts " as is "enjoyed by white citiz…
23-1137 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (8) boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions The question presented is whether an equal protection challenge to facially race-neutral admission criteria is barred simply because members of the ra…
22-1067 Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement 1. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act ("ADA") requires a prisoner with a known disab…
22-5671 Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws by disallowing three of Petitioner's peremptory challenges to white jurors a…
21-1010 Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation.
20-8015 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii 1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A PRIMA …
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
19-1356 Thomas Joseph Skelton v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act bar-admission bar-certification disability-discrimination discrimination disparate-impact intentional-discrimination mental-health-status public-entities qualified-individual reasonable-accommodations Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, discrimination by public entities in all programs, activities, and services against qualified individuals w…
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing A claimant may assert a claim for monetary damages under the Rehabilitation Act if there was intentional discrimination. Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 18…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
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…
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
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-5713 Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency District of Columbia 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration