protected-activity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A570 Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application 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 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 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 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 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 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 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