| 24-106 |
Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination |
Why was the Petitioner not given her position back when she was exonerated and has sworn testimony that has proved that there was no racial discrimina… |
| 23-1368 |
Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights |
In the circumstances described in the first paragraph, was the due process violated?
2. In the circumstances described in the second paragraph, was t… |
| 23-441 |
Patrick Fehlman v. James Mankowski |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation public-employee public-employment retaliation |
Is the government free to continue to retaliate against a former public employee for speech made during the employee's employment? |
| 22-1009 |
Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation |
Ohio has a public employee statutory scheme for collective bargaining. In this statutory scheme, the Ohio Legislature took care to create an individua… |
| 22-498 |
Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership |
Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will? |
| 21-716 |
David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
|
criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower |
Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot… |
| 21-6116 |
Christopher David Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error oath-of-office public-employment standing |
1) Whether the conflict between Mechanik and Bank of Nova Scotia invite arbitrary decisions from the lower courts.
2) Whether it was a mistake of fac… |
| 21-418 |
Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (68)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-employment public-school religious-expression |
1. Whether a public-school employee who says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to students is engaged in government speech … |
| 21-120 |
James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination |
Florida Atlantic University has a reporting policy
that requires its faculty and staff to disclose outside
professional activities to the university… |
| 20-878 |
Michael Edwards v. Indiana University |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination |
Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University? |
| 20-792 |
Melinda Beazley Pearson v. City of Augusta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination investigation loudermill-hearing neutral-decisionmaker pretext pretext-analysis public-employment summary-judgment |
Was it error for the panel to affirm a grant of summary judgment, finding due process had been provided where a challenged demotion had been effected … |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT? |
| 19-342 |
Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment |
In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980), the Court recognized a patronage exemption from First Amendment prot… |
| 18-1042 |
Frank Gonzalez v. City of Hialeah, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
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city-charter city-employment civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment for-cause-removal probationary-employee procedural-due-process procedural-rights property-interest public-employment reemployment-list stigma |
1. whether there is a federal common law standard to determine the existence of a property interest in city employment, without applying state laws, r… |
| 18-741 |
Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services |
Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi… |
| 18-6160 |
Kevin R. Carmody v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
bias civil-procedure cross-examination due-process employment hearing-officer involuntary-termination post-termination-proceedings privileged-document procedural-fairness public-employee public-employment standing termination |
1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit err in finding Plaintiff bowed out of the post-termination proceedings?
2. Does an involuntarily … |
| 18-282 |
Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. |
Georgia |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 |
1) If Pickering and its progeny are applicable to cases involving off-duty public employees who are speaking to matters of public interest which are n… |
| 18-12 |
Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (12) |
coaches constitutional-rights employment-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech public-employment public-forum public-school religious-expression school-speech teachers tinker-v-des-moines |
Whether public school teachers and coaches retain any First Amendment rights when at work and "in the general presence of" students. |