protected-class

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Whether federal employment discrimination laws qualify indigenous peoples as a protected class for national origin and/or race discrimination
24-10 Marecia Bell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-2000e-16 employment-law federal-employment pay-discrimination protected-class summary-judgment title-vii title-vii-discrimination Whether a failure to follow federal rules relating to pay without credible explanation that results in a protected class receiving less pay than other…
23-7667 Renee Chrustowski v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights diversity employment-discrimination harassment protected-class retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons
23-5005 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination protected-class title-vii workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally and knowingly discriminate against an employee based on race-national-origin-gender-sexual-orientation?
22-1244 Angela Joseph v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-procedure job-performance protected-class summary-judgment wrongful-termination Whether summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civic Procedure Rule 56 standard was improperly granted
22-7228 Sharon Hardman v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-discrimination civil-rights disparate-treatment due-process employment employment-law equal-protection promotion protected-class workplace-rights Whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits an employer from refusing to promote an employee over the age of 40 solely on the b…
22-5531 Patrick O. Christian v. Republican Party, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection majority-rule minority-protection minority-rights protected-class sexual-orientation When is the minority legally excluded, unprotected, deprived, and/or conspired-against?
22-147 Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts prima-facie-case protected-class similar-situated summary-judgment supervisor-liability Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication
21-536 Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-statute civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction protected-class state-bar-discipline younger-abstention Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the Younge…
21-5824 Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity Reverse-discrimination
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…
19-8369 LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci…
19-6750 Ronnie R. Ceasar v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct protected-class racial-animus Whether the prosecution of a case by a local district attorney violates due process and equal protection rights when the prosecution is motivated by r…
18-9663 In Re Lorcan Kilroy 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should continue to require non-disabled plaintiffs to prove t…
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreason…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…