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25-927 Richard Lowery v. Lillian Mills, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending civil-rights employer-threats first-amendment public-employee reasonable-employee retaliation Whether a public employer's threats against an employee can suffice to establish a First Amendment retaliation claim, if those threats would dissuade …
25A801 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the 'Cat's Paw' doctrine establishes causation in employment discrimination cases involving disability discrimination and retaliation claims
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation Whether a referral by a governmental official to another official for potential criminal investigation constitutes adverse action under First Amendmen…
25A614 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary judgment ruling contravenes Supreme Court precedents governing employment discrimination claims under Title VII a…
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…
25-5884 Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation Does the United States Constitution and the First Amendment prohibit the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office from fabricating a crime and using a …
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii Whether subject matter jurisdiction was properly invoked for alleged Title VII and 1983 violations involving tax fraud, retaliation, and concealment o…
25A258 Tonnesha Kidd v. Lourdes Medical Center at Burlington, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete employment-law pro-se-litigation race-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit improperly applied summary judgment standards in a case involving claims of race discrimination and workplace retaliation
25-127 Jonathan F. Ball v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response Waived crime-victims-rights-act due-process legal-duties retaliation sentencing-hearing victim-status Whether a person asserting victim status under the Crime Victims' Rights Act is guaranteed due process to present testimony and evidence at sentencing…
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliati…
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-termina…
25-47 Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii Whether the courts improperly applied zero tolerance harassment policies under Title VII, EPA, ADA, and EEOC standards in evaluating multiple alleged …
25-33 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation Whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts that establish a prima facie case of discrimination; whether c…
24A1262 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation state-court-proceedings Whether state officials can be enjoined from pursuing allegedly retaliatory and bad-faith criminal and civil proceedings that purportedly violate a pl…
24-1274 R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent Whether a public employee's First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires proof of subjective intent and distinct 'other conduct' …
24A1207 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a heightened pleading standard to employment discrimination claims in contravention of Bell Atlantic Co…
24-1237 Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discovery, …
24-1174 Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsistent …
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24A568 Thomas Ostly v. City and County of San Francisco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment public-employee retaliation summary-judgment Whether a public employee can establish a First Amendment retaliation claim when alleging termination based on protected speech without presenting dir…
24-6015 Tawanna Hilliard v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1513(e) of Title 18 is facially overbroad, unconstitutionally vague, and violates First Amendment protections when applied to speech-b…
24A484 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation Whether a pro se plaintiff alleging workplace retaliation and constructive dismissal can overcome procedural dismissal and seek Supreme Court review o…
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation Whether the two-factor Holland v. Florida equitable tolling test applies universally across federal cases and how circuits should interpret diligence …
24-5885 Sherrell Dowdell-McElhaney v. Global Payments Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-act employment-discrimination protected-opposition-activity retaliation summary-judgment workplace-discrimination Whether the District Court erred in granting summary judgment on claims of employment discrimination and retaliation under Title VII, ADEA, ADA, and F…
24-5742 Jasmine Oliver v. Amazon.com Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP employer-liability reasonable-accommodation retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-discrimination Whether an employer is vicariously liable for sexual harassment reported anonymously, whether employer liability depends on organizational size, and w…
24-5518 Mark E. Brown v. Unified School District No. 501 Tenth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-shifting-analysis civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation section-1981 section-1983 Whether a plaintiff was required to file a Section 1981 claim instead of a Section 1983 claim in an employment discrimination case
24-5491 Phile Andra Watson v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action causation employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed-motive standard for proving employment discrimination
24-5280 Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously denied relief for a prisoner's claim of retaliation and denial of access to courts through unlawful stripping of…
24-123 Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 Tenth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation Question not identified
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 employment-discrimination
24-5177 Margaret M. Reed v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure agency-policy civil-rights due-process federal-code-of-ethics federal-ethics personnel-actions retaliation whistleblower-protection Whistleblower-protection-act
24-88 John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits a p…
24-67 Tammie L. Terrell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination-in-employment-act burden-of-proof but-for-causation causation differential-treatment employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-action retaliation title-vii Whether differential treatment must contribute to the ultimate decision
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified
24-49 James E. Hitch v. The Frick Pittsburgh Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied adverse-action burden-of-proof causation civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment employment-law retaliation Whether James E. Hitch has proven a claim for retaliation under the 'but for' causation test?
24-41 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Amici (1) bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens when federal officials imprison a critic in retaliation for his refusal to waive his right to free speec…
24-5023 Willie Edward Nichols v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP disability-discrimination employment-discrimination long-term-employment management-misconduct part-time-employment pay-cut pay-reduction retaliation vacation-pay workplace-rights wrongful-termination Question not identified
24A4 Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation Whether a plaintiff must establish both that a constitutional right was clearly established and that the specific manner of retaliation was clearly un…
23-7801 Festus O. Ohan v. Chimezie C. Duruhesie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Dismissed IFP case-law civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process harassment judicial-bias judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rights retaliation standing statutory-provisions Question not identified
23-7784 Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez Seventh Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation Retaliation-against-civil-rights-lawsuit
23A1110 Dana Johnson v. Raytheon Company Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete false-claims-act government-contractor judicial-review navy-contract retaliation security-clearance Whether the judicial review doctrine established in Department of Navy v. Egan precludes False Claims Act retaliation claims by employees of governmen…
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
23-1283 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation Whether 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1) prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who has exercised her rights under the FMLA
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation Does the disbarment of an attorney for truthful out-of-court statements about other attorneys violate the First Amendment?
23-7644 Sekou Keita v. Giant of Maryland LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process judgment-reversal lower-court perjury retaliation standing Does perjury's finding in a civil case a cause of lower court judgment reversal?
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v Did Congress validly abrogate states' sovereign immunity for retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23-7617 Andrew Nguyen v. AT&T Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equipment-allocation hotline-complaint performance-review racial-bias retaliation tool-access workplace-retaliation Upfront access to order tools and materials
23A1061 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-29 Presumed Complete bivens-action constitutional-rights deterrence fourth-amendment home-confinement retaliation Whether a Bivens remedy is available for a government official's retaliatory revocation of home confinement in violation of a prisoner's constitutiona…
23-7579 James B. Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Ninth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation surveillance Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure were violated by th…
23-1238 Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder v. Austin Peay State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-state-law employment-law hostile-work-environment motion-to-amend motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading reasonable-person retaliation retaliation-claim Whether Petitioner's claim for retaliation required her to prove she suffered severe or pervasive conduct by her supervisor rather than conduct which …
23-7497 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction Whether a company's comments with customers on and for redress of grievances are protected under the First Amendment and Article 16 of the Declaration…
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether the respondent's termination of the petitioner for observing the Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath day (Saturday) constitutes religious-discrimina…
23-7359 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied IFP confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript Can a prison confidential informant be described as a state actor for retaliation
23A955 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-24 Presumed Complete administrative-review certiorari-review federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether a federal whistleblower who alleges retaliation and wrongful termination can challenge an agency's credibility determination and seek correcti…
23-1152 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment despite disputed material facts
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing Whether the lower court relied on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender dis…
23-7211 Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland Fifth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims of sexual assault and retaliation as frivolous
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-7149 Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to vindictive prosecution, illegal sentencing, and denial of due process
23-7079 Santiago Mason Gomez v. Odunay O. Kuku, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights retaliation standing supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right to free …
23-1019 Dennis McLain v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response Waived causation-standard civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee federal-employment jury-instruction retaliation title-vii whistleblowing Whether the jury should be instructed on the causation standard delineated in Babb v. Wilkie for federal employee Title VII claims
23-6858 Tujuan Estaisyo Session v. FNU Giannotti, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation Whether the Supreme Court should order the federal Bureau of Prisons to investigate and address the petitioner's allegations of assault and threats by…
23-950 Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity Whether a preliminary injunction may be granted if it requests the ultimate relief sought in the litigation
23-911 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution permit race retaliation claims?
23-6781 Stephanie Norman v. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc., dba Moffitt Cancer Center Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination family-medical-leave-act florida-civil-rights fmla-interference fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court erred in affirming the District Court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the petitioner's entire complaint
23-891 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii Whether the Fifth Circuit may disregard the doctrine of continuing violations and instead adopt a discrete-act factor test requiring subjective intent…
23A754 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete chilling-effect first-amendment inter-circuit-split retaliation speech-suppression summary-judgment Whether the First Amendment protects public employees from prospective speech suppression and retaliatory actions when raising concerns about institut…
23-6731 Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony Defendant's-admission-of-guilt-overridden
23A739 Irina Collier v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-misconduct institutional-fraud political-conspiracy retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the First Amendment protects a whistleblower's claims of systemic institutional fraud and potential political conspiracy when alleging retalia…
23-836 Samer Ali-Hasan v. St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination termination title-vii wrongful-termination Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows is…
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r…
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation?
23A647 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct Whether Title VII permits a hostile work environment claim based on allegations of unwanted physical contact and sexual harassment by a supervisor and…
23-6463 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-01-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights clearance-system constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeo-records employer-discrimination retaliation sixth-amendment standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1680 which was about MDA COC's and MDA's Aiding And Abetting Employer Discrimination
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Whether a retaliation claim based on objecting to a discriminatory event can be brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment …
23-6427 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP agency-accountability civil-rights due-process employee-rights hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-retaliation Multiple Retaliation by a Human Services Agency
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?
23-6416 Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and frau…
23-717 Israel Alvarado, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerced-speech covid-19-vaccine-mandate military-chaplains promotion-discrimination religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act retaliation rfra-violation up-or-out-promotion-requirements up-or-out-requirement Whether this action was and remains justiciable because the RFRA violations' effects continue
23-6391 Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection Are minority males who oppose discrimination entitled to equal-protection
23-6373 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employer-discrimination equal-protection retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1678
23-6372 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employer-discrimination retaliation security-clearance Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1698
23-6370 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP clearance-system constitutional-rights disparate-treatment dod-clearance-system due-process eeo-records employer-discrimination equal-justice retaliation sixth-amendment Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1662 which was about Removing the last discriminatory '2' appraisal from my records
23-6243 Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public employee to speak on matters of public concern without fear of retaliation
23-6237 Gregory I. Ezeani v. William Anderson, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-prisoner healthcare-denial immigration immigration-detention medical-negligence medical-treatment retaliation Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated when DHS/ICE unlawfully arrested him, denied him proper medical treatment, and failed to f…
23-6223 Christopher Louis Sindone v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-habeas-corpus harassment legal-standing retaliation statutory-interpretation Did the defendants retaliate against the plaintiff after he filed a federal habeas corpus complaint by firing him from his job, then further retaliate…
23-561 Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity Does the EPA protect employees who are paid less money for positions requiring more skill, effort, or responsibility than those held by employees of t…
23-545 Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive-first-amendment, retaliatory-tort, 4…
23-6059 Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-bias judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation standing whistleblower-protection Why did the Federal Circuit Court ignore Petitioner's MSPB case regarding her IRA
23-6009 Mario Austin v. American Building Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mr. Rustin's claims of retaliation and national origin discrimination under Title VII
23-6033 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clifford-pinkney darryl-smith due-process james-gwin james-kennar prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit standing us-district-court Whether the total bar of all court access rights violates the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances
23-6021 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Boston Housing Authority, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation rule-12 rule-70 rule-8 rule-9 standing Whether Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 12(b)(6), Rule 8(a)(2), Rule 9 are an adequate basis to dismiss the petitioner's complaint?
23-473 James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage an…
23-5897 Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i…
23-5902 Kaleb J. Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews Whether the First Amendment, Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not on t…
23-438 Austin Roy Clark v. Neeli Bendapudi, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom civil-rights dobbs-decision dobbs-v-jackson due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation standing viewpoint-discrimination Whether a medical student was expelled from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in retaliation for his expression and support of conservat…
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?
23-5841 James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation Can the State Department of Corrections terminate an inmate's access to legal materials and services in retaliation for the inmate's filing of a civil…
23-5792 Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses
23-5787 Richard Frasca v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination constitutional-rights depression equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing mental-illness procedural-flaws retaliation Whether equitable tolling applies to the statute of limitations based on depression and mental illness resulting from age discrimination and retaliati…
23-5745 Zephryn (Stephanie) Hammond v. University of Vermont Medical Center Vermont 2023-10-10 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination legal-standards mcdonnell-douglas-framework protected-characteristics retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Under what circumstances should an employer's response to an employee's complaint about a protected characteristic warrant documentation, investigatio…
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment in a case involving allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation by…
23-215 John F. Marchisotto v. Ocean County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey 2023-09-07 Denied 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process red-flag-laws retaliation second-amendment Constitutionality-of-Red-Flag-Laws
23-5543 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of …
23-5493 Brenda M. Johnson v. Catholic Community Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-law housing property-rights retaliation workplace-protection Is Brenda M Johnson an employee under WSDOT for protective activity clause
23-5496 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment are being violated by the government…
23-193 Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings dismissal due-process employment-retaliation freedom-of-speech judicial-recusal retaliation Should assigned District court judge recuse himself due to conflict of interest?
23-5481 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition?
23-145 Aleksandra Shklyar v. Carboline Company Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion ada-pleadings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disability-discrimination due-process judicial-bias retaliation standing Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability-discrimination,retaliation
23-5328 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process evidence-withholding retaliation security-clearance sixth-amendment-rights standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5329 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-records adverse-action civil-rights discrimination discrimination-complaint due-process equal-employment-opportunity evidence-withholding retaliation sixth-amendment wrongful-termination Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
23-5279 Robert Annabel, II v. Joseph Novak, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure lawsuit-dismissal prisoner-rights retaliation standing Should truthful prisoner complaints be protected conduct?
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights
23-61 Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliatory …
23A42 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 Whether the First Amendment protects individuals from government retaliation for wearing identifying apparel as legal observers and for unobtrusively …
23-5069 Lola Bonitta McGee v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights disability due-process employee-rights federal-employment government-accountability medical-disability retaliation workplace-discrimination workplace-harassment when-an-exemplary-employee-is-discriminated-against
22-7861 Darryl C. Daniels v. Z. Culpepper, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner can be punished for requesting protection from a prison administration
22-7813 Toby Ray A. McKenzie v. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Kentucky 2023-06-16 Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing family-status housing-discrimination judicial-misconduct landlord-tenant retaliation Is unfair housing now legal in the state of Kentucky where single fathers can be singled out and discriminated against by their landlords due to their…
22-1211 Uvaldo Guzman v. Skinner C. Sturgis, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response Waived causation causation-element civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process government-officials retaliation retaliation-claim subjective-intent taunts Whether government officials' statements of intent to continue violating an individual's constitutional rights can establish subjective intent for del…
22-7694 Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-02 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints
22-1106 Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Colorado State Board of Education, et al. Colorado 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act charter-school-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review obstruction-of-justice retaliation school-safety state-board-decision whether-the-last-sentence-of-section-colorado-revised-statutes-applies-to-all-state-board-decisions
22-7535 Delroy Booth v. Lieutenant R. Allen, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights damages discretionary-review district-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights procedural-standards remedy-exhaustion retaliation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of the petitioner's complaint alleging retaliation, de…
22-7507 Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement Does an out-of-court settlement agreement set the parameters for future legitimate correctional goals?
22-7493 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-bureau-of-prisons first-amendment medical-treatment retaliation standing Was Petitioner's First Amendment Right violated when he was retaliated by Federal Bureau of Prisons staff for exercising his right to pursue his lawsu…
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…
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened
22-7232 Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation Whether plaintiff was within the 5-year statute of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983(a) when he filed Section 1983 claims
22-960 Christen Robinson Kelley v. Catherine Howden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights discrimination mixed-motive retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Did the District Judge err in granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's claims?
22-7170 Reginald L. Wilson v. Jamie Bullard, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP administrative-procedure case-manager civil-rights disciplinary-infraction due-process negligence omissions record-checking retaliation standing Whether the plaintiff's case manager, the defendant, Amanda Edwards' recommendation was based on a non-existent disciplinary infraction?
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…
22-7082 Crystal G. Jordan v. Atlanta Public Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights damages due-process employment-termination fmla fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation temporal-proximity workplace-discrimination Is an email proof of pretext for unlawful retaliation?
22-7062 Ricardo Noble v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discretion-abuse due-process equal-protection prison-classification retaliation standing Whether it is unconstitutional for judges and prison staff to allow their personal prejudices to interfere with their ability to do their job
22-892 Guangyu Wang v. Nevada System of Higher Education Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied anti-retaliation anti-retaliation-standard civil-rights decision-making due-process hierarchical-network-processing network-processing retaliation statutory-remedies title-vii How to incorporate a human decision-making process and the anti-retaliation standard into a hierarchical network processing model and why it matters t…
22-6910 Carolyn L. Fields v. Hunter Conrad, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination government-job human-relations-commission pro-se-representation retaliation standing workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Is everyone entitled to an attorney?
22-6817 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator?
22-6740 Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing Did the District court and the Court of Appeal erred in denying the Petitioner her legal rights within her legal capacity from the facts in her case a…
22-6723 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to 'Interstate Telephonic and Email—Computer Server Based C…
22-696 Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council was private speech or government speech
22-6605 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-security due-process judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution retaliation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by an illegal stop, assault, seizure, and arrest by NYPD personnel, malicious prosecution…
22-660 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law intent personnel-action retaliation retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower whistleblower-protection Under the burden-shifting framework that governs Sarbanes-Oxley cases, must a whistleblower prove his employer acted with a 'retaliatory intent' as pa…
22-6455 Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Jeremy J. Bynum Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability prison-grievance prisoners-rights property-destruction qualified-immunity retaliation Does the Plaintiff's First Amendment right to redress in the form of a prison grievance exposing corruption and illegal acts give the government emplo…
22-6381 Teresa Young v. Mary Seymour, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection healthcare-access libel-slander military-retaliation retaliation Were the Plaintiff's Constitutional rights violated by the Defendants?
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
22-6239 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner's right to access a county courthouse and public records is different than a regular citizen
22-6205 Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the respondent on the petiti…
22-6188 Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of library access, legal assistance, and the failure to notarize legal documents constitute sufficient injury to state a claim for …
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2022-11-15 Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii issues-being-raised
22-5954 David Florence v. S. Frauenheim, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amending-complaint civil-rights complaint-amendment court-retaliation due-process grievance-filing legal-procedure qualified-immunity retaliation Whether respondent can intentionally falsify their report to the court to obtain qualified immunity
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
22-5815 Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii Question not identified
22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Whether an appellate court is required to remand a case to the district court when the appellate court determines the district court used erroneous le…
22-197 Yvonne T. Massaro v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived adea age-discrimination burlington-northern causation causation-standard continuing-violation discrete-acts employment-retaliation hostile-work-environment pattern-and-practice retaliation Whether the Burlington Northern standard applies to ADEA retaliatory-harassment-claims
22-150 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy Federal Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning
22-128 Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas Texas 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment Is the denial of a fair trial or appeal rights for a decorated police officer who was a victim of sexual assault and harassment repugnant to the Const…
22-104 Martin Rugamba v. CRST Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied cat's-paw-theory civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-reporting free-speech monell-liability municipal-custom municipal-liability police-retaliation retaliation standing Whether police retaliation against an individual who reports misconduct constitutes a Monell custom or practice
22-5229 Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation Whether the Equal Protection Clause is implicated by allegations of racial discrimination in municipal services and policies
22-5211 Ian LaMonte Cormier v. Lynn E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process false-accusations false-claims malicious-prosecution prisoner-complaint retaliation sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court in San Diego, California, was justified in denying the in forma pauperis status to the plaintiff-appellant
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees?
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
21-1585 Richard Arnold, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-error constructive-discharge due-process free-speech judicial-review navy-chaplaincy promotion-procedures religious-speech res-judicata retaliation retaliation-claims Did the Court of Appeals commit constitutional error in holding that In re Navy Chaplaincy's denial of Petitioners' systemic challenges to the Navy pr…
21-1514 Paula Steven v. Dennis Schroader, Jr., et al. Washington 2022-06-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process eviction governmental-reporting landlord-tenant month-to-month-tenancy retaliation retaliatory-eviction tenant-rights Whether month-to-month tenants are protected from retaliatory eviction for reporting unlawful acts
21-1485 In Re Eileen Vey 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation self-defense Whether this Court should clear Eileen Vey of all charges, since she was clearly criminally prosecuted and deprived of 'reasonable doubt'
21-1475 Maria Vazquez-Javier v. Union de Tronquistas de Puerto Rico Local 901 Puerto Rico 2022-05-24 Denied eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-claims federal-regulatory-framework retaliation state-claims statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the federal statutory and regulatory framework provides that any employee that files a Charge of Discrimination and Retaliation before the EEO…
21-7952 Steven P. Grados v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-assignment magistrate-judge procedural-error recusal retaliation third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether a trial judge can assign a non-consent magistrate judge to hear a 2255 motion involving the trial judge's own actions
21-1433 Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a local '…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with releva…
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-7653 Nathan Christopher Braun v. Justin DeMars, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-preparation civil-rights confinement document-access due-process eleventh-circuit legal-access legal-materials medical-care prison-litigation retaliation transfer Did the retaliatory transfer from one facility to another violate the petitioner's due process rights?
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, 'Hostile Environment' for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
21-1315 Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness Whether the court may immunize an employer's asserted reason for termination from examination of its truthfulness by characterizing it as a 'business …
21-1301 Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te…
21-7485 Terrell Staton v. Ned Lamont Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights disciplinary-report due-process eighth-amendment grievance-procedure judicial-discretion legal-access malicious-interference procedural-restrictions retaliation Did Gam E cE | ~ NoTKE expose the plaintiff to dangerous living conditions by his reluctance and insubordination to wear his mask appropriately?
21-7421 Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the 'No Fear Act?
21-7085 Kristina Merle Larson v. American Home Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Fourth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance disability-discrimination employment-discrimination interactive-process medical-confidentiality psychiatric-disability reasonable-accommodation retaliation termination workplace-retaliation Why is it okay for the defendant to completely ignore the plaintiff's request for a reasonable accommodation?
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar Whether the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims
21-1038 John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response Waived brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the video evidence of criminal and constitutional violations by law enforcement was improperly suppressed
21-1007 Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection Whether statements made by a public employee during an internal investigation by a governmental agency regarding matters of public concern are within …
21-6842 Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii Where there exists illegal practices in the workplace by a United States federal employer Census 2020-Department of Commerce
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
21-6756 Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine Whether rie, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the violation of civil-rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative-function, acts c…
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal 'hate speech' and that, therefore, th…
21-907 Kenda R. Kirby v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process educational-amendments non-discrimination retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Plaintiff has a right to redress under Title IX or other policies and statutes
21-6639 Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility Sixth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility a violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation?
21-843 Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii Where an employer must respond to complaints of sexual harassment
21-799 Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) protects employees from retaliation occurring after the provisio…
21-6381 Russell Tinsley v. Merrill Main, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing Whether the New Jersey United States District Court denied Mr. Tinsley's First Amendment retaliation claim
21-733 Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii Does a petitioner who files an EEOC charge and asserts a claim of retaliatory discrimination for engaging in protected activities under the anti-retal…
21-6302 Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation How long Person From Guatemala Central America Denied Motion to withdraw Guilty Plea and Vacated the Sentenced
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…
21-6181 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation Did the United States District Court — Central District of California's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution when he…
21-613 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-action medical-student ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claim standing title-vi Whether a student can state a retaliation claim under Section 504 and Title VI
21-611 Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place
21-522 Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii Whether a claim of unlawful retaliation for filing an EEOC charge can be addressed in a civil action without a second formal administrative charge
21-5914 Tony Joseph Tabor v. Vincent Coleman Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery due-process free-speech retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated due to retaliation for his speech when the defendants used chemical agents against him
21-443 William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the term 'employee' in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) includes someone who is no longer an employee when the alleged retaliation takes place
21-5760 Anthony Auriemma v. Broomfield Municipal Court, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-searches illegal-trials inhumane-conditions judicial-misconduct retaliation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated thro…
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-313 Ciara Vesey v. Envoy Air, Incorporated, dba American Eagle Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived cats-paw civil-rights due-process employment retaliation summary-judgment Where the employer worked in close coordination with petitioner's biased supervisor to conduct a sham investigation which adopted the supervisor's fal…
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?
21-302 Arthur G. Jaros Jr. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment free-speech home-rule-powers liberty-interest library-trustee municipal-corporation public-office retaliation Did the Village of Downers Grove violate the petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech by removing him from his statutory term as public libra…
21-5473 Jameson Rosado v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-service retaliation Whether Jamie was ordered for the FFD to ultimately have him removed from federal service in retaliation for pursuing prior EEO activity
21-5412 Alfred E. Caraffa v. California Housing Securities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prison's alleged practices of law library access denial, lack of legal assistance, an…
21-5351 Chauntel Jackson v. Transportation Security Administration Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation standing Whether the discrimination and retaliation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 constitute a violation of due process, and whether there is a right-to-s…
21-5341 Vernon Norman Earle v. Shreves, C/O, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP policy-based judgments that present special Biven administrative-grievance bivens Bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-officer due-process policy-based-judgment policy-based-judgments retaliation special-factors Whether a rogue correctional officer's unlawful retaliation against an inmate for utilizing an administrative grievance process implicates the sort of…
21-138 Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim Whether comparator evidence can support an inference of discrimination if the plaintiff and comparators do not share the same position, duties, and su…
21-131 Blanche A. Brown v. Joseph Friel, Police Chief, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response Waived abuse-victim-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process free-speech patient-abuse probable-cause retaliation summary-judgment Right to report abuse and seek protection
21-103 In Re Charles Landon Roberson 2021-07-26 Denied academic-freedom academic-progress civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process graduate-admission mandamus medical-disability retaliation standing university-liability Whether Plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the university administration's actions, leading to a request for mandamus to admit Plainti…
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim
21-34 George Boutros v. Cory Hony, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied civil-rights district-attorney-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-review prosecutorial-immunity retaliation retaliatory-prosecution standing Did the district court err in finding the district attorney absolutely immune?
21-5056 Arthur Vincent v. AutoZone Fourth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discipline eeoc employment-discrimination harassment job-assignment retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment Whether AutoZone violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through negligent harassment, discipline, discharge, job assignments, promotions, …
21-14 Elizabeth Harding Weinstein v. Village of Briarcliff Manor, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied civil-rights covid-restrictions due-process government-overreach government-services judicial-immunity mask-mandates medical-exemption medical-exemptions pro-se-litigation retaliation Whether a citizen can be deprived of government services or access for not wearing a mask due to medical inability
21-9 Vincenza Presti v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination federal-employment retaliation title-vii workplace-discrimination workplace-retaliation Whether the Judicial system can be biased towards federal-employee-petitioners by denying them due-process and a hearing
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…
20-1806 Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation Did the Sixth Circuit err in granting qualified immunity to the state district attorney and in denying her absolute immunity for communicating to the …
20-1763 Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text Should disability-related interference claims be analyzed as retaliation claims or under a broader framework?
20-1715 Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix Whether the jury instruction on the causation standard for a Title IX retaliation claim was erroneous
20-1720 Joanne Taylor-Cotten v. District of Columbia Public Schools District of Columbia 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-law impact-process retaliation Whether the district court erred in holding DCPS and OFA for violation of the IMPACT process by no providing Staff development
20-8177 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process federal-rules informa-pauperis judicial-procedure pro-se-plaintiff rehabilitation-act retaliation standing Can the federal courts ignore the Federal Rules?
20-1625 David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute Whether Section 1102.5(b) requires a whistleblower to identify a specific statute, rule, or regulation
20-1632 Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper Sixth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public official o…
20-1623 David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-rule public-employee retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a police officer has a First Amendment right to speak to a prosecutor about corruption in their department
20-1576 145 Fisk, LLC v. F. William Nicklas Seventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation judicial-review preliminary-agreement rational-basis retaliation standing Whether false information is a rational basis for terminating a development agreement
20-7997 John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated when he was denied work opportunities, retaliated against for seeking medical care, and denied due…
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII requires a plaintiff to prove sex was a 'motivating factor' rather than a 'but for' cause of the cha…
20-1533 Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2021-05-04 Denied civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii Should Plaintiff Curry been given an Opportunity for Reemployment
20-7780 James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation Did California's actions violate the right of expressive-association and constitute content-based-discrimination?
20-1365 In Re Arno P. Kuigoua 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's appeal from summary judgment when the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, i…
20-1330 June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii Was this a coordinated effort by government employees to undermine the Rule of Law?
20-7527 Kimberly Johnston v. Mark J. McGinnis, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP barron-test civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct property-rights retaliation Whether a judge can be liable for acts outside the scope of Barron judicial immunity, including theft of a non-party's personal property without due p…
20-1294 Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors Are state actors entitled to petitioning immunity for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment be reversed due to it was granted adversely, improperly, and unconstitutional
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment…
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does 'shall be made free from any discrimination' prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor?
20-7153 Anthony Lonnie Forbes v. SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP 1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act contractual-relationship contractual-relationships employment employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act retaliation section-1981 Where the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits racial discrimination in contractual relationships,…
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii Question not identified
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g…
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to su…
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
20-950 H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free-speech, whether the court misapplies the but-for causation test in a Title…
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
20-6790 Mona Mustafa v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP baseless-litigation civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination harassment human-rights-act illinois-human-rights-act litigation-retaliation retaliation retaliatory-harassment title-vii Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for an individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is suffi…
20-813 James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a 'person aggrieved' for purposes of Title VII only if …
20-780 Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii Does the 'participation' clause protect an employee from a retaliatory defamation suit?
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-6379 Brenda L. White v. St. Lawrence Catholic Schools Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse administrative-liability assault civil-rights due-process educational-abuse parental-reporting retaliation school-misconduct student-rights Should teachers be allowed to hurt students?
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
20-6280 Deverick Scott v. Pamela Cook Eighth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-grievance retaliation some-evidence some-evidence-standard Was inmate Scott's writing of a prisoner grievance an exercise of his constitutional right?
20-617 California Virtual Academies v. California Public Employment Relations Board California 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-law due-process labor-relations prima-facie-case retaliation wright-line-test Whether California's Public Employment Relations Board may postpone consideration of employer evidence that contradicts a prima facie case of unlawful…
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws
20-608 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure california-department-of-industrial-relations employment-dispute evidence-transfer federal-court government-code retaliation state-court transfer-of-record unlawful-termination Does the Opposing Party the Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to refuse to transfer the record …
20-600 Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach Sixth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech?
20-6177 John Leo Davis v. Goodyear Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process law-enforcement prisoner-rights qualified-immunity retaliation sexual-abuse standing Whether it is proper for a district court to dismiss a case before first allowing discovery and an evidentiary hearing on the contention that the case…
20-500 Berlinda A. Madden v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination employment-law evidence material-fact retaliation summary-judgment union-president Whether a sworn affidavit of the Union President that company officials acted in retaliation for having filed an EEO complaint is a genuine issue of m…
20-6014 Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment Whether there is a temporal proximity between Petitioner's protected conduct and the Sixth Amendment retaliation act of placement in medical segregati…
20-5943 Lamar A. Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complaint-filing constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment legal-procedure retaliation standing Whether the criminal charges were retaliatory in response to the petitioner's complaints
20-435 Walton B. Campbell v. Ryan D. McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Fourth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-employment national-security retaliation security-clearance standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit correctly held, contrary to decisions of the D.C., Third, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that this Cou…
20-5845 Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied IFP 1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation Confiscation-and-destruction-of-prisoner-property
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?
20-387 Lewana Howard v. Gabriel DeFrates, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights equal-protection federal-remedy retaliation state-action state-employees When state employees acting in personal capacity violate 14th Amendment Equal Protection rights of a protected group member, can 42 U.S.C. 1983 be use…
20-393 Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC West Virginia 2020-09-25 Denied asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection What legal issues are being raised?
20-5761 In Re Antonio M. Bogan 2020-09-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collusion constructive-possession due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness retaliation Whether habeas corpus relief is being denied
20-358 Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation When may a government employee be punished for speaking on a matter of public concern?
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-5461 Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2020-08-28 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing Whether the petitioner's case is similar to Trantino v. State of N.J. Parole Board, where the petitioner was issued a retaliatory extended term senten…
20-230 Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation Whether U.S. Agencies may commit fraudulent acts to obstruct and delay applications
20-216 Prianka Bose v. Roberto de la Salud Bea, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Amici (1) academic-misconduct civil-rights due-process education educational-opportunity false-accusation gender-bias retaliation sex-discrimination title-ix Whether a school that expels a student based on charges and evidence motivated by sex bias denies that student educational opportunities 'on the basis…
20-5484 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. J. C. Smith, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fifth-amendment parole parole-revocation retaliation supervisory-liability Whether Petitioner's claims that his parole was revoked due to invoking his Fifth Amendment Right to refuse to incriminate himself could establish Sup…
20-213 Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against employment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encompasse…
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability?
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
20-172 Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same super…
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C…
20-5255 Don Mashak v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment irs-authority natural-law natural-rights retaliation rule-of-law tax-enforcement Is it unconstitutional for the IRS to punish or retaliate against citizens without legal foundation?
20-5234 Jeremiah Bryant v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination human-rights-act retaliation standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the underlying decision of the D.C. Superior Court based on the Office of Human Rights
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constitutional violat…
20-5143 Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the prison authorities' failure to protect the petitioner's safety and security
20-5147 Mitchell Taebel v. Alane Ortega, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act retaliation standing Whether a PLWHA (person living with HIV/AIDS) has a right to be free from retaliation for reporting disability discrimination under the Rehabilitation…
19-8891 Jeffery L. Howard v. Management and Training Corp., et al. Ohio 2020-07-02 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech grievance-forms retaliation stare-decisis state-courts Is petitioner's First Amendment rights violated when private for-profit corporation denies access to grievance forms required by law
19-1436 Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a 'lack of probable cause' requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising…
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 …
19-1332 Tonya Knowles v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-2302 5-usc-2302-(b)(8)-(9) agency-investigation agency-official burden-of-proof investigation prohibited-personnel-practice protected-disclosure retaliation retaliation-motive whistleblower whistleblower-protection When an Employee makes a protected disclosure, regarding a Prohibited Personnel Practice which falls under statue 5 USC 2302(b)(8)-(9), against an age…
19-1317 Efrain Areizaga v. ADW Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hobbs-act mediation-confidentiality retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States court of appeals affirm a decision that exceeds their authority and lacks subject matter jurisdiction
19-1295 Rao S. Mandalapu v. Temple University Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination pretext reeves-v-sanderson retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Is it necessary for a plaintiff to show discriminatory or retaliatory 'animus' against a protected category in order to prevent dismissal at the summa…
19-8398 Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. Michigan 2020-05-05 Denied IFP civil-rights employment employment-law hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability retaliation sexual-harassment workplace workplace-abuse Must a court overlook coworkers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile environme…
19-1262 Steven Eric Greer v. Dennis Mehiel, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights final-policymaking-authority first-amendment government-entity government-liability monell monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services petition press probable-cause retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60-motion Did the lower courts misapprehend Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Fla. and Greer v. Mehiel?
19-1239 Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows Ohio 2020-04-22 Denied Response Waived concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B) or 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(3)
19-8317 Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitrary-authority civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights, including due process, free speec…
19-1229 Edward Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Skiing Company Colorado 2020-04-18 Denied 1st-amendment colorado-constitution constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech national-labor-relations-act public-lands retaliation ski-lift unionization Is the banning from ski lift operations on public lands during Plaintiff's distribution of a unionization flyer promoting a living wage a violation of…
19-1217 Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19…
19-8224 James William Neuman v. Nathan Callahan, et al. Iowa 2020-04-08 Denied IFP civil-rights clerk-conspiracy court-records document-tampering due-process fraud fraud-allegations judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity retaliation theft Do the Black Hawk County Clerks have qualified immunity when they conspired to delete or erase a payment and not follow court orders
19-8152 Menes Ankh-El, aka Wendell Brown v. Robert Carter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP atypical-and-significant-hardship civil-rights due-process hardship-standard law-library-access prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-due-process retaliation Does Ankh-El's permanent transfer to higher level prison to use the law library impose atypical and significant hardship, deny procedural due process …
19-8134 James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider denying of plaintiff, prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections, housed in private priso…
19-7997 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims against the respondent company for hostile work environment, retaliation, and racia…
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra…
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination Shall the District Court toll the statute of limitations under the FLSA
19-7959 John Tedesco v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process grievance-process injunctive-relief personal-involvement retaliation Was the plaintiff entitled to injunctive relief?
19-1121 Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii Is the Fifth Circuit's restrictive 'ultimate adverse employment action' doctrine in conflict with Title VII protections?
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts are correct to apply Nassar to FMLA cases
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Montgomery County, MD Code of Human Rights were unla…
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court decisions conflict with the formulation describing retaliation claims within the U.S. Circui…
19-7708 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-employment-opportunity hate-crimes retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-reprisal Why the Federal Agencies and the Intelligence Community (IC) are allowed to abuse and torture the aggrieved Petitioner to death
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination?
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-7613 Wanda E. Smith-Jeter v. ArtSpace Everett Lofts Condominium Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act prima-facie-case pro-se retaliation standing summary-judgment Does Petitioner, pro se, WANDA E.Smith-Jeter present a prima facie case for retaliation under the Fair Housing Act against the Respondents, ARTSPACE E…
19-950 Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter Must a plaintiff seek a stay to avoid preclusion of later claims?
19-7462 Carol Bangura v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP appeals-court-review causal-connection civil-procedure civil-procedure-review-record-appeal-standard-of-r civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process employment prima-facie-evidence retaliation senate-employment-policy standing Did the Appeals Court conduct a full review of the record submitted to the panel?
19-916 Vernon Wendell Risby v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel due-process leosa mandamus retaliation title-vii Is Collateral Estoppel applicable where the prior Mandamus case dealt only with the issue of whether the Agency was obligated under LEOSA to provide a…
19-7317 Florence R. Parker Chailla v. Navient Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP anti-retaliation-law civil-rights due-process false-claims-act government-fraud higher-education-act motion-to-dismiss nonparty-intervention qui-tam relator retaliation standing Can an illegal decision be upheld that granted a nonparty' motion to dismiss after it refused to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by a pr…
19-7199 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence Whether the then President of SUNY Potsdam, John Schaller, should be denied qualified immunity for retaliating against an employee for reporting workp…
19-7158 Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC Second Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote
19-837 Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a…
19-7135 Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Seventh Circuit's treatment of pro se litigants was correct
19-7064 Johanna Beanblossom v. Bay District Schools Florida 2019-12-26 Denied IFP amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process due-process-amendment employment-law first-amendment retaliation school-employment summary-judgment Absent unfair delay or futility, does fundamental due process require that a Plaintiff be allowed to amend a complaint at least once before a Court's …
19-788 Erin Daly v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement blacklisting dodd-frank employment-law finra-form-u-5 retaliation sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act sec-violations whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act protects whistleblowers from retaliation by former employers
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at …
19-6893 Michael Wayne Nelson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process patent prison-conditions retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
19-724 Keith Y. Arakaki v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the four discrete events Petitioner raised in opposing Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment constituted adverse actions in accordance with…
19-6866 Sheila Jackson v. Garda CL East, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeco employment-discrimination fair-labor-standards-act gender-discrimination overtime-pay retaliation standing workplace-rights How can I be terminated for something that wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination?
19-6812 Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
19-6779 Mitchell Stevens v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech procedural-standards retaliation standing Did the district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims, and did the appeals court err in overlooking key facts?
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards
19-6480 Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection were violated
19-500 Ameer Siddiqui v. NetJets Aviation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) but-for but-for-test causation-standard civil-rights comparator-analysis comparators employment-discrimination pretext pretext-evaluation reasonable-inference retaliation retaliation-claims section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the 'but for' test, or is a reasonable inference sufficient?
19-6291 Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Firm, LLP District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment title-vii tortious-interference Whether District of Columbia court of Appeals can ignore instances of retaliation under Title VII and other serious violations
19-6292 Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's findings
19-476 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud housing-dispute judicial-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant retaliation sanctions standing state-officer-misconduct Can state officers discriminate against pro se litigants?
19-6093 In Re Barbara Stone, et al. 2019-09-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults Whether the facts demonstrate willful violations of protected rights under the Constitution, including the right to life, liberty, property, due proce…
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to terminate an at-will employee for filing a harassment complaint?
19-380 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation Whether a federal court may grant relief from judgment under Rule 60(b) for legal error
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a 'Motion for Leave' on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents tha…
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court
19-5845 Shawn M. Thomas v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim district-court-dismissal due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation free-speech retaliation sixth-circuit-appeal standing summary-judgment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals make the right decision in dismissing Plaintiff Thomas' appeal and affirming the dismissal of the District Cour…
19-5808 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings Whether the actions described in the email are protected by the US Second Amendment
19-291 Anne K. Block v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights disassociation due-process first-amendment janus-v-afscme judicial-bias judicial-bias-recusal judicial-disqualification motion-on-pleadings retaliation standing Did the trial court err when the district court judge and the reviewing judge refused to disqualify themselves due to their membership in the defendan…
19-269 Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim?
19-260 Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty…
19-262 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment-immunity ada-title-vii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-jurisdiction employment employment-discrimination federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction pleadings retaliation right-to-sue standing Whether the lower courts' refusal to consider EEOC's right-to-sue letter and her statements as part of pleadings, and her request and leave for amendm…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower issues being raised
19-5621 David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation and…
19-195 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California 2019-08-14 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation Has California's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court's holding in Wilson v. Seiter
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws…
19-5467 Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan…
19-135 Pamela J. Smith v. University of Maryland, Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived 1991-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 adverse-employment-action civil-rights employment mcdonongh-v-smith retaliation statute-of-limitations Whether retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. §1981 should accrue at the date of the adverse employment action or the date when the adverse employment de…
19-133 Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury?
19-5365 Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied IFP color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency
19-5192 Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii Is a plaintiff's prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national-origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonab…
19-5187 Enoma Igbinovia v. James Greg Cox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment retaliation standing statute-of-limitations When does the statute of limitations begin to run where the injured party was unaware of the respondents' fraudulent concealment?
19-69 Diane B. Weissburg v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp civil-rights due-process educational-rights iep-meetings official-proceedings privacy-law public-interest recording recording-consent recording-rights retaliation Are Individual Educational Placement (IEP) meetings Official Proceedings?
19-5116 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination Whether employees can be protected when an institution can formulate a false narrative for violation of company policy, even when the employee is prov…
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims
19-34 Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis New Hampshire 2019-07-03 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact in …
18-9801 RaShawn Long v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech political-speech retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's First Amendment free speech rights were violated by the respondents' suppression of his political speech and expression
18-1555 Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment Whether retaliation chilled free speech under an objective or subjective test
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…
18-9667 Loretta J. Alford v. Tina Ballard, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights federal-employment general-services-administration government-employment inspector-general personnel-practices prohibited-personnel-actions prohibited-personnel-practices retaliation timecard-fraud whistleblower-protection Does the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act indicate that the General Services Administration handles personnel actions for the AbilityOne Commission?
18-9622 Essie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination personnel-practices retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment in McDaniel's retaliation claim was proper
18-9628 Ella W. Horn v. CRC Health Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection race-discrimination retaliation section-1981 sexual-harassment Question not identified
18-9593 Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no…
18-1524 Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution Does the district court's dismissal of claims, including First Amendment retaliatory-arrest and prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on probable c…
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18A1265 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete administrative-agency equal-employment federal-employment pro-se-litigation retaliation workplace-discrimination Whether federal administrative agencies can engage in workplace discrimination and retaliation against employees without legal recourse
18-9532 Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution?
18-1463 Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University Eighth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti…
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Continuing violation exception to Title VII limitation period
18-9410 Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar…
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de…
18-1388 Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen?
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
18-9098 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mootness prison-discipline retaliation standing Should a COA have been issued?
18-9077 Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom…
18-1350 Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death Whether a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is entitled to qualified immunity for allegedly coercing a mother into departing the U.S., where sh…
18-1356 Dayo Adetu, et al. v. Sidwell Friends School District of Columbia 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived academic-deference civil-rights damages discrimination human-rights-act material-adverse-action material-adversity non-pecuniary-damages retaliation retaliation-claims settlement-agreement summary-judgment Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on the grounds that non-pecuniary damages were not pe…
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates …
18-9018 Jupiter Dennell Wilson, Sr. v. City of Chesapeake, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP age-discrimination age-retaliation certiorari-review circuit-court-conflict civil-rights fraud fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-record judicial-discretion race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Whether the United States Supreme Court can affirm the Fourth Circuit's certification of the consolidated case
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a…
18-8926 Donald C. Jackson v. Priye T. Mukoro, et al. Texas 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights de-minimis due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals for the First District Texas reversibly erred when it reversed the Judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment gran…
18-8940 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions retaliation standing Should pro se defendants be granted in forma pauperis status in criminal cases, given that the second copy of the record on appeal was intentionally l…
18-1326 Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, their entitlement to qualified immunity should be evaluated indivi…
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…
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin…
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the …
18-8770 Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB…
18-8735 David Meyers v. Walter Swiney, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-status due-process mail report retaliation standing Did the U.S. District Court violate my due process rights?
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…
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest
18-1225 Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o…
18-1204 Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response Waived discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discrete …
18-8290 Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect the Plaintiffs from discrimination and r…
18-1138 Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-03-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Unconstitutional vagueness of California vexatious litigant law, violation of civil and constitutional rights, bankruptcy law violations, due process …
18-1096 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague?
18-8088 Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison…
18-7906 Johnny Flores v. Texas Texas 2019-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process lesser-included-offense manslaughter prosecutorial-vindictiveness retaliation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution entitles the petitioner to the lesser included offense of Manslaughter
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. First Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial
18-942 Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Relisted (5) adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer Whether it is a 'materially adverse action' under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re…
18-7458 Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation Whether or not petitioner's civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the…
18-7386 Oscar Armando, aka Oscar Armando Sarres Mendoza v. Gerald Wayne Whitfield, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights classification due-process grievance property-rights retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the prison confiscated his legal materials without proper notice or opportunity to be h…
18-882 Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retaliation are permitted, as long as discrimination or ret…
18-7302 Angel Bartlett v. Stephen Gorsalitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations hate-crime judicial-abuse peonage retaliation witness-tampering Was it illegal or wrongful for Stephen Gorsalitz and the Kalamazoo Courts to frame, Set up and destroy Angel Bartlett when she first had her kids?
18-871 Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde…
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program Whether the Supreme Court should define the elements of the Constitution's adequate civil detainee treatment program
18-830 Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association Whether the Connick framework applies to public employee retaliation claims based on union association
18-808 Kirk E. Webster v. Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process intelligence-agency retaliation settlement whistleblower Whether a settlement agreement should be rendered legally invalid if coerced by a discriminating management official
18-7136 Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law
18-773 Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation Did the court below err in affirming that a six-month criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his off-duty activity of raising mone…
18-7073 Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves…
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?
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants' code-of-conduct and absolute-relief-procedures?
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 USC 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-662 Mary McDonald v. City of Wichita, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived adverse-action but-for-causation but-for-cause employment-discrimination jury-instruction jury-instructions predominant-cause retaliation sole-cause sole-cause-standard standard-of-proof title-vii Does a court err by instructing a jury that a plaintiff must prove that retaliation is 'the' but-for cause of the adverse action, rather than 'a' but-…
18-652 Oussama El Omari v. Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied amendment-of-complaint breach-of-contract commercial-activity-exception federal-common-law-immunity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-15(a)(2) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act fraudulent-scheme fraudulent-smear-report fraudulent-smear-scheme government-instrumentality retaliation smear-campaign u.s.-citizen us-citizen us-citizen-employee us-citizen-employment Whether federal common law immunizes a foreign rul Whether leave to amend the complaint should have b Whether the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies to a foreign government instrumentality's alleged breach of …
18-630 Charles Allen Richards v. City of Des Moines Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-clinic police-department retaliation standing Did Charles Richards exercise a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he approached the legal clinic op…
18-634 Aed El-Saba v. University of South Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure employment-discrimination national-origin-discrimination pretext pretext-analysis retaliation summary-judgment supervisory-power termination Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment despite the district court's failure to properly analyze…
18-624 Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services Second Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII
18-6690 Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination Does the Petitioner have the right to sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even after he has received his letter of right to sue?
18-6644 Jingyuan Feng v. Sheena Komenda, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination employment-discrimination,civil-rights,title-vii,p equal-employment performance-evaluation pretext retaliation title-vii Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions
18-6490 Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite its twi…
18-6441 Roderick McKissick v. Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2018-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prejudice retaliation standing Whether prior inconsistencies in testimony should be counted as lies which is a clear unlawful deprivation and deep denial of proper determination
18-6453 Celestine G. Thompson v. Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech immigration retaliation standing whistleblower Were DHS-ICE officials in Plan to Criminalize Appellants
18-6460 Waddell Bynum v. DeKalb County Sanitation Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Dismissed IFP ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employer-liability employment insurance insurance-reporting pro-se-appeal retaliation sexual-harassment workplace-safety Did the company fail to report the incident to the necessary people or proper authorities to contact the appellee regarding the accident or injury?
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and …
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
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
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Whether the petitioner's workers' compensation claim was improperly denied
18-6101 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. FJC Security Services, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-overreach retaliation search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the respondents'…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-305 Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix Whether plaintiff has a right to redress discrimination and retaliation under Title IX or other policies and statutes
18-5920 Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination Whether the appeals court ruling conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions on important matters and cannot survive application of the correct le…
18-5907 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Mary Ellen Elia, Commissioner, Office of Professional Discipline, Board of Regents, Education Second Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech retaliation standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, free-speech, and retaliation
18-5883 Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation Whether lower courts can dismiss disability-related occupational injury civil complaints by omitting essential facts and misconstruing allegations, cr…
18-5850 In Re Christopher D. Schneider 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus lie when that fundamental right is going to be m…
18-251 Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2018-08-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession
18-228 Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation Does the Administrative Procedures Act preclude a Bivens claim for First Amendment Retaliation and 'Class of One' Equal Protection?
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint
18-214 Tawoos Bazargani v. Latch's Lane Owners Association, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-08-17 Denied appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutionality court-dismissal due-process judicial-process judicial-review legal-entitlement legal-threat medical-leave obstruction-of-justice respondent-intimidation retaliation standing threat threat-of-harm trial-entitlement Whether petitioner is entitled to a trial on the identified claim due to threats from respondent, lower court's dismissal of the claim while petitione…
18-207 George Duggan v. Department of Defense Ninth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012, does the Agency'…
18-5537 Alla Opengeym v. Heartland Employment Services, LLC Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights complaint-procedures employment-policies hostile-work-environment retaliation whistleblower-protection civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection hostile-environment retaliation Whether the employee's policies and complaint procedures for addressing a hostile working environment for an employee and the court's failure to follo…
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme…
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said …
18-5411 Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation Was there a legal obligation for company Jofaz Transportation, Inc. under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave for an employee wi…
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o…
18-5358 Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided disputed factual issues and dismissed the case with prejudice, and whether the Sixth Circuit Court impro…
18-5327 Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan
18-69 Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, …
18-5196 Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether filing a Title VII action to which the underlying EEOC charge failed to assert retaliation, an amended complaint allegation asserting retaliat…
18-5180 Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or …
18-28 Robert J. Balding v. Sunbelt Steel Texas, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied ada-protections adverse-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination family-and-medical-leave-act family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights pretext protected-leave retaliation workplace-retaliation Whether an employer violates an employee's FMLA-or-ADA-rights by interfering-with-retaliation-against-denying-accommodations-and-taking-adverse-action
18-5045 Vernon L. Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-housing freedom-of-speech retaliation standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to discrimination and retaliation under the Fair Housing Act and other civil rig…
18-9 Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether strict scrutiny should apply in reviewing lower courts' dismissal of Title VII complaint alleging discrimination, unfair pay, and retaliation
18-5019 Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. Second Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection Why it was done Purposely?
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment Whether a public employer may legally retaliate against an employee for making good faith reports of workplace misconduct and potential HIPAA violatio…