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25-5929 Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o…
24-897 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Nelson County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection national-origin plausibility-standard Whether a complaint alleging employment discrimination based on national origin meets the plausibility standard for stating a claim under federal civi…
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Cla…
23-7598 Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown Oregon 2024-05-31 Denied IFP custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an …
23-890 In Re Batia Zareh 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) are unconstitutional
23-765 Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs Did this violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by disparately impacting Dr. Patel and other like applicants on the basis of their national…
23-6009 Mario Austin v. American Building Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mr. Rustin's claims of retaliation and national origin discrimination under Title VII
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the current judicial system's determination of justice determined by one's race or national origin?
22-7722 Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr…
22-1122 Virgil M. Lorenzo v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Ninth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response Waived communicative-competence discrimination litigation-barrier national-origin objective-evidence subjective-judgment subjective-judgments title-vii Does the reliance of federal courts on subjective judgments concerning the communicative competence of the plaintiff constitute an unreasonable obstac…
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
20-957 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, to disclose their …
20-6477 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh…
19-8888 Henry Oviedo v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority District of Columbia 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination eeoc-guidelines employment-discrimination hiring national-origin protected-class protected-status qualifications reasonable-employer title-seven workplace-discrimination Whether a factfinder can conclude that a reasonable employer would have hired the protected plaintiff who was significantly better qualified, but this…
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…
18-1217 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the Fair Housing Ac…
18-1148 Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment Discrimination-based-on-perceived-race/religion/national-origin