racial-animus

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-397 Delton York v. Scott Kupor, Director, Office of Personnel Management Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights employment-discrimination neutral-reason prima-facie-case racial-animus summary-judgment Assuming the petitioner established a prima facie case of employment discrimination, if the respondent offers evidence of a neutral reason for its ref…
24-6331 Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights constitutional-law equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-animus When a law is originally motivated by racial animus, must a court consider its racist origins when deciding whether it violates the equal protection c…
24-261 Ammar A. Idlibi v. Mary-Margret D. Burgdorff, Judge, Middlesex Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-exception discrimination-claim judicial-immunity parental-rights racial-animus religious-discrimination Whether constitutional exceptions should exist to judicial immunities in discrimination claims against judges
23-7529 Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law?
23A951 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that…
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to …
23-589 Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. Maryland 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law Whether the Maryland Orphans' Court violated the decedent's and sole-legatee's equal-protection, due-process, property-interest, contract-clause, raci…
22-834 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability categorically ignored the petitioner's habeas issues and conflicted with S…
22-6395 Bryan Wolfe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent…
21-7388 Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas Texas 2022-03-16 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does …
19-7503 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-31 Denied IFP buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t…
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…
19-330 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury Is the use of racial animus by the government in a bribery trial a structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury?
18-198 Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law Whether a plaintiff should be allowed to plead facts related to a collective bargaining agreement and administrative regulations under §1981 and Title…