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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6798 | Jay Pemberton v. Bell's Brewery, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | civil-procedure disability-discrimination employment-discrimination evidence-standard mcDonnell-douglas summary-judgment | Whether a court of appeals may affirm summary judgment by resolving disputed issues of fact and credibility in the employer's favor based on judge-mad… |
| 25-945 | Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment | Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required sum… | |
| 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… | |
| 25-587 | Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting case-law employment-discrimination judicial-framework mcdonnell-douglas stare-decisis | Whether McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green should be overruled |
| 25-511 | William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment | Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of an evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian American plaintiff conflicts wi… |
| 25-499 | Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment | Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for summary judgment analysis and whether 'but for' or motivating factor causation applies in… |
| 25A271 | Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting civil-rights employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment title-vii | Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework remains a viable standard for analyzing employment discrimination claims under Title VII | |
| 25-261 | Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii | Whether a labor organization violates Title VII when it refuses to pursue grievances based on religious objections while pursuing comparable secular g… | |
| 25-239 | Tonya C. Huber v. Westar Foods, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Denied | burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case retaliatory-intent summary-judgment | Whether a plaintiff alleging employment discrimination must establish a prima facie case and pretext under the McDonnell Douglas framework when seekin… | |
| 25-98 | Peter Gumm v. AK Steel Corporation | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights mcdonnell-douglas seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-seven | Whether a federal district court errs in granting summary judgment based on improper application of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green and misapplicatio… |
| 24A300 | Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas personal-knowledge summary-judgment | Whether an attorney's conclusory declaration without personal knowledge can be used to support summary judgment in an employment discrimination case | |
| 23-1346 | The Golub Corporation v. Elaine Bart | Second Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Denied | burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mixed-motive pretext summary-judgment title-vii | Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to mixed motive discrimination cases, and if so, how are the three stages of that framework to be formul… | |
| 23-7621 | Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure discrimination discrimination-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test reeves rule-52 rule-56 summary-judgment | Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's holdings |
| 23-1235 | Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence comparator-analysis convincing-mosaic employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas prima-facie-case title-vii | Whether the prima facie case and comparator analysis set forth in McDonnell-Douglas-Corp-v-Green-remains-the-correct-legal-test-in-proving-employment-… | |
| 23-550 | Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | age-discrimination direct-evidence employment-law fourth-circuit-standard mcdonnell-douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case summary-judgment | Whether a statement by a university dean and a designation by a professor's department chair constitute direct evidence of age discrimination | |
| 23A356 | Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat… | |
| 23-417 | Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment | Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non-mo… | |
| 22-1140 | Dr. Chinwe Offor v. Mercy Medical Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabrication forgery fraud hospital-records mcdonnell-douglas precedent sanctions summary-judgment | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that egregious and repetitive acts… |
| 22-299 | Trisha Doran v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response Waived | age-discrimination babb eeoc eeoc-regulations federal-sector federal-sector-claims honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework title-vii | Whether this Court's rationale in Babb applies to federal-sector Title VII claims; and if so whether the McDonnell-Douglas framework has been abrogate… |
| 21-1421 | Valerie Kline v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management | District of Columbia | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination fruit-of-poisonous-tree mcdonnell-douglas pretext prima-facie unlawful-detail | Whether an unlawful detail into a position prior to officially filling it is relevant to raise an inference of pretext, when the prima facie stage und… |
| 21-1385 | Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment | Should the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting test remain in employment discrimination cases involving 42 U.S.C. § 1981? |
| 21-6690 | Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii | Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. … |
| 21-733 | Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii | Does a petitioner who files an EEOC charge and asserts a claim of retaliatory discrimination for engaging in protected activities under the anti-retal… |
| 21-671 | Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response Waived | ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation | Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualified t… |
| 21-359 | Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonnell Douglas v. Green's burden-shifting analysis is t… |
| 20-1622 | Ramonica M. Luke v. University Health Services, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 admissible-evidence civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-evidence employment-discrimination honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext-analysis similarly-situated title-vii | Pretext-by-discrimination |
| 20-7289 | Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC | Second Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii | Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the factual… |
| 20-950 | H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii | Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free-speech, whether the court misapplies the but-for causation test in a Title… | |
| 20-790 | Reginald Eric Sprowl v. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights disparate-treatment employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case summary-judgment | Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1978) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis? |
| 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… |
| 19-745 | Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii | What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD… | |
| 19-233 | Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii | Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of the Sergeant at Arms 820 F.2d 490 (D… | |
| 19-178 | Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment | Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv… | |
| 19-83 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. | District of Columbia | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii | How does the McDonnell Douglas framework apply in a Title VII and ADEA case involving temporary employment agencies? |
| 19-49 | Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity | Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims |
| 18-1426 | Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination | Has the McDonnell Douglas framework been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied? |
| 18-1161 | Regena Bryant v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response Waived | age-discrimination burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii | Determining whether employer's failure to rebut prima facie case of discrimination mandates judgment for plaintiff |
| 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 |