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23-1001 Larry Golden v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent race standing Whether the District and Appellate Courts' denial of Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial against a White-Owned Foreign Corporation th…
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?
23-5683 Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity Did a conspiracy exist to deny due process and equal protection based on race?
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…
22-5781 Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio…
21-7727 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision applies retroactively to all persons in Indian Territory irrespective of race, including their final civil and…
21-1046 Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University Second Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination legal-review membership-selection race sex standing title-ix title-vi Should the Court summarily reverse the court of appeals' holding that FASORP failed to allege standing in its amended complaint?
21-6223 Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af…
21-315 Jacquelyn Bouazizi v. Hillsborough County Civil Service Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) age attorney-negligence civil-service eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-pay equitable-tolling fmla gender pro-se-litigation race retaliation Should the Doctrine of Equitable Tolling be expanded?
21-198 Anthony W. Knights v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-analysis eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment free-to-leave free-to-leave-test race race-consideration reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure Whether a court analyzing if a Fourth Amendment seizure has occurred is categorically barred from considering a person's race
21-5068 Leonard Griffin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
20-1221 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Erin Rubin Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process exhibit-evidence gender judicial-procedure legitimate-purpose race race-profiling standing Is Exhibit G. Oklahoma Conversations a complete, consistent and coherent model of the facts of this case? Were those facts already cognizable to this …
20-757 Timothy L. Ashford v. Office for Counsel for Discipline, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-discipline bad-faith-exception civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity race racial-discrimination standing younger-abstention Whether the federal court should abstain in an attorney disciplinary action
20-5822 Eric Terrell Spears v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-bias police-brutality police-interaction race racial-profiling seizure seizure-doctrine Whether a court must take into account a Black person's race when determining whether they are seized under the Fourth Amendment
20-5406 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process executive-committee federal-judges judicial-harassment judicial-misconduct judicial-order mandamus-petition race religion retaliation Whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner is legal
19-1379 Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey Sixth Circuit 2020-06-16 Dismissed Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race related reasons to break off the investigat…
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
19-8114 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, …
19-7142 General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson California 2020-01-06 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing Whether a state can deprive a descendant of enslaved people the right to a jury trial
19-817 Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi…
18-8812 James Barr v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing preliminary-injunction race racial-discrimination standing Did the federal court err when it denied the petitioner's request for a preliminary injunction?
18-8650 Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio…
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
18-7055 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, …
18-7054 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…