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 | A university decision-maker admitted using 'sex' as one of the three factors in evaluating an accused student's credibility, resulting in expulsion. T… |
| 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 | 1. Whether Title VII's retaliation provision and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that an employer woul… |
| 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 | 1. Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to mixed motive discrimination cases, and if so, how are the three stages of that framework to be for… | |
| 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 | In these federal cases Plaintiffs could not locate Defendant in California for personal service of process, because at all times Defendant was a res… | |
| 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 | 1. Whether, considering the "cat's paw " employment theory in what circumstances, an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination in viola… |
| 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 | 1. Did the District Judge err by granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the 14th Amendment? 2. Did the District Judge er… |
| 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 | 1. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with r… |
| 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 | This case presents an important question over which lower courts are openly and intractably divided regarding the proper method for assessing mixed mo… |
| 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 and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that an employer would n… |
| 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 | Therefore the question presented is whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Responde… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discrimina… |