right-to-sue

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6498 Cynthia Stephanie Jones v. Providence Teachers Union, Local 958 First Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending IFP district-court eeoc employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis right-to-sue teachers-union Shall the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issue a Right to Sue to a claimant only to have the Right-to-Sue expeditiously denied upon entry to …
24-7055 Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and federal lockdowns constitute a valid basis for equitable tolling of filing deadlines in a pro se employment discrimi…
22-970 James H. Griffith, Jr., dba CJ's Sports Bar, et al. v. Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied copyright-act copyright-infringement de-novo-review exclusive-licensing idea-of-work licensing-rights right-to-sue sua-sponte summary-judgment tangible-medium Whether the plain language of the US Copyright Act authorizes the exclusive licensing of rights in an idea before it is fixed in a tangible medium
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-611 Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o…
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?
19-446 VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6) charge-of-discrimination discrimination-charge eeoc employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission investigation investigative-authority private-litigation right-to-sue title-vii Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission iss…
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…
19-5517 Eric Alan Sanders v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 eeoc eeoc-charge pleading-amendment pleadings right-to-sue rule-15 rule-15(d) title-vii Whether an aggrieved person can amend a complaint under Rule 15 or supplement a complaint under Rule 15(d) after the deadline for amending pleadings h…
19-5016 Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. Texas 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in affirming the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's case, which violated the petitioner's due process r…
18-8035 Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case
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?
18-5401 Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations Gender-discrimination