section-1981
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6880 | Shariff Ahmad Jones v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights federal-court-jurisdiction personal-injury-law racial-discrimination section-1981 statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether this court must reverse its decision in Goodman v. Lukens Steel Co., 482 U. S. 656 (1987) that places federal court reliance on state perso… |
| 25A844 | Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | dei-policy employment-selection hostile-work-environment race-discrimination section-1981 workplace-harassment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-823 | William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii | 1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu… | |
| 25-251 | Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment | In the Ninth Circuit's opinion, Petitioner must allege a prima facie case of discrimination and "the requisite meeting of the minds to establish a con… |
| 24-1301 | Calvin Allen, Sr., et al. v. Seth Gomez, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | dismissal-judgment public-accommodation race-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 section-1985 | Whether Eighth Circuit erred in holding and affirming dismissal judgment overlooking District Court manifested errors and abuses of discretion entered… |
| 24-7317 | Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | IFP | court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal | 1. IS IT REVERSIBLE ERROR FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO TREAT OPPOSING PARTIES (ONE A BLACK MALE ATTORNEY AND THE OTHER A WHITE MALE ATTOR… |
| 24-7098 | Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights | Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "significan… |
| 24-6948 | Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights federal-rules-procedure section-1981 section-2000e state-action vicarious-liability | Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by failing to apply the vicarious liability principle enunciated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (… |
| 24-6278 | In Re Sherly Cadet | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 | The history of U.S. Supreme Court decisions demonstrate that a Court of Appeals should grant a pro se plaintiff IFP status, pursuant to 28 U.S.C, §191… | |
| 24-638 | Mehdi Moini v. Ellen M. Granberg, in Her Official Capacity as President of George Washington University | District of Columbia | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | academic-tenure employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation-theory section-1981 similarly-situated | Under §1981, is a Middle-Eastern Iranian a race? What evidence or characteristics does an appellant need to provide to prove his race? How to determin… |
| 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 | WAS APPELLANT/PLAINTIFF REQUIRED TO FILE $1981 CLAIM OPPOSED TO $1983 CLAIM |
| 24-112 | Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | Question not identified. |
| 23-7659 | Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights contract-rights due-process equal-justice intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case procedural-due-process section-1981 summary-judgment trial | Section 1981 of Title 42 provides "all persons " in the United States "the same right " "to make and enforce contracts " as is "enjoyed by white citiz… |
| 23-6324 | Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii | Did the Virginia (Defe ndant 's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964,1990. And, … |
| 23-487 | Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC | Utah | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure | 1. Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants ' contractual dues is discriminatory? 2. Whether Appellant 's exercise of §92… |
| 22-1247 | Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e2 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national ori… | |
| 22-1092 | Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy Clause, federal laws and this Court's on-the merits-based final pretrial judgment prece… | |
| 22-917 | Nayonn Gray v. Autozoners, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights contract contract-services discriminatory-intent material-fact pretext racial-discrimination section-1981 summary-judgment | Whether summary judgment should be granted when there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether a defendant's refusal to provide services requ… |
| 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 | Immediately after beginning his employment with Respondent as a pharmacist in March 2015, Petitioner became the direct object of his Caucasian coworke… |
| 22-231 | Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii | Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms," "conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "signific… |
| 21-7893 | Paul Mueller v. Bert Parnall | New Mexico | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights discovery-rule due-process legal-malpractice section-1981 statute-of-limitations | (1) Whether my right to sue was violated in New Mexico under the 14th amend., and § 1981, after a state court denied my right to sue, when it decided … |
| 21-1385 | Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis in employment … |
| 21-894 | Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. | New York | 2021-12-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death | 1. Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, namely, Judge Marsha L. Steinhardt, erred and abused its/her discretion by dismissing Petiti… | |
| 21-662 | Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment | 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in its de novo review, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, apply th… | |
| 21-172 | Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | circuit-conflict civil-rights contract-enforcement contract-rights contractual-relationships racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation third-party-interference | Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract? | |
| 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 | 1. Where the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits racial discrimination in contractual relationshi… |
| 20-898 | Coneisha L. Sherrod v. United Way Worldwide | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-act employment employment-contract indirect-evidence interference non-contracting-party pleading race-discrimination section-1981 | (1) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981") prohibits a non-contracting party from interfering with person's contract,… |
| 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 | 1. Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under either Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the strenuous "but for" test, or is a reasonable in… |
| 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… |
| 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 | Whether the District court and Ninth Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the due process clause for equal protection by failing to … |
| 18-1185 | Charter Communications, Inc. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | GVR | Relisted (5) | 1981 but-for but-for-causation causation civil-rights civil-rights-act editorial-decisions editorial-discretion first-amendment hurley hurley-v-irish-american motivating-factor section-1981 | Twice now in the context of federal anti discrimination laws, this Court has instructed that the rule of but -for causation is the "default rule[]" ag… |
| 18-1171 | Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (4) | 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing | 1. Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation? 2. Can a plaintiff state a plausible claim fo… |