mixed-motive

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-746 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title VII's mixed-motive analysis applies to Title IX claims when a decision-maker explicitly admits to using 'sex' as a factor in determining…
24-5491 Phile Andra Watson v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action causation employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed-motive standard for proving employment discrimination
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…
23-1347 Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure 23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii Due process-requirements-for-service-of-process-on-foreign-defendants
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination under Title VII based on a supervisor's alleged bias
22-960 Christen Robinson Kelley v. Catherine Howden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights discrimination mixed-motive retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Did the District Judge err in granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's claims?
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva…
21-7455 Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California California 2022-03-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes Proper method for assessing mixed motive in Batson cases
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
18-6321 Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed motive
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…
18-353 Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Respondent's motion for summary judgment in …
18-94 Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discriminatio…