| 25A570 |
Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
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agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether a federal agency's adverse employment action constitutes unlawful retaliation under Title VII when an employee has engaged in protected EEO ac… |
| 25A162 |
Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
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affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity |
Whether a district court's determination of an employer's affirmative defense under the Federal Railroad Safety Act involves a mixed question of law a… |
| 24A701 |
Karl Hansen v. Elon Musk, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
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arbitration dean-witter-reynolds issue-preclusion protected-activity sarbanes-oxley securities-law |
Whether a claim statutorily precluded from arbitration can be dismissed based on findings from a related arbitration proceeding involving different cl… |
| 24A252 |
Sylvia E. Crane v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
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disability-discrimination eeoc-complaint employment-accommodation jury-verdict protected-activity rehabilitation-act |
Whether the Rehabilitation Act requires a finding of disability when an employee alleges failure to accommodate and retaliation by a federal employer |
| 24-63 |
Kalvin Schanz v. City of Otsego, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights degree-of-aid fair-housing-act interference intimidation protected-activity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fair Housing Act's prohibition on intimidation or interference with a person who has 'aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise… |
| 23-728 |
Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities |
Is providing discriminatory working conditions or facilities based on race or sex an unlawful employment practice? |
| 23-5595 |
Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii |
whether-appeals-court-retain-authority-over-moot-claims |
| 22-7448 |
Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii |
Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some… |
| 22-931 |
Paulo K. Mwassa v. Presbyterian Homes & Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
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but-for-causation but-for-cause civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination federal-sector-employment protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires a plaintiff to prove that retaliation for protected activit… |
| 22-832 |
Michael A. Caldwell, et al. v. Joseph M. Gasper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director, Michigan State Police, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination diversity-initiative employment employment-discrimination gender-preference protected-activity race-preference title-vii |
Whether opposition to an employer's 'Diversity Initiative' (non-remedial race and gender preferences) constitutes protected activity under 42 USC § 19… |
| 22-541 |
Peter Jokich v. Rush University Medical Center |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure contract-waiver due-process erie-doctrine federalism protected-activity retaliation summary-judgment waiver |
Whether the panel imposed an unsupported standard of proof for waiver under Illinois law, depriving the petitioner of due process |
| 22-5098 |
Arthur Torlucci v. California |
California |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app… |
| 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… |
| 20-1810 |
Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
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access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the law when the court denied the petitioner's motion to proceed in forma pau… |
| 20-5828 |
Roderick A. Carter v. CPC Logistics, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law burden-of-proof driver-fatigue employer-admissions employment-discrimination federal-regulations protected-activity retaliation staa-protection trucking-safety whistleblower-protection |
When an employer admits to a violation in writing to the federal government, should they be held accountable to their words? |
| 19-1393 |
Rachelle Davis v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actor civil-rights different-retaliatory-conduct eeoc-charge employment-discrimination lack-of-merit merit pro-se-complaint protected-activity reasonable-accommodation retaliation retaliation-claim same-actor statute-of-limitations timeliness untimely-complaint |
Does protection against retaliation apply even if the original complaint or charge was untimely or was found to lack merit when initiated by the same … |
| 19-225 |
United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower |
Must these employees, Relators in a suit brought under the False Claims Act, have seen and therefore pled the exact content of billings sent to Medica… |
| 19-198 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-motor-vehicle fifth-circuit-guidance logging-time on-duty-not-driving on-duty-time protected-activity surface-transportation-assistance-act transportation-regulations |
Whether the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit has provided legal guidance about the safety related issue of logging time for repair a… |
| 18-1391 |
N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii |
Whether the plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York State Physicians Board was a protected activity under Title VII |
| 18-8553 |
Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination |
Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a… |
| 18-754 |
David A. Ramirez v. Walmart |
North Dakota |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
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civil-rights discrimination due-process employee-termination employment employment-law labor labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workload-allocation workplace-dismissal |
Why did the Walmart lawyer tell the court that this was a protected activity? |
| 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 |