sex-discrimination

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25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram…
25-183 Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending CVSGRelisted (3) educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment
25A5 Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix Whether Title IX provides an implied private right of action for employees to sue for sex discrimination in educational institutions
24-746 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title VII's mixed-motive analysis applies to Title IX claims when a decision-maker explicitly admits to using 'sex' as a factor in determining…
24A539 Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete birth-certificate bostock-interpretation equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination transgender-rights Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from maintaining a birth certificate policy that does not allow individuals to change their biol…
24-6037 Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination, hostile work environment, and failure to accommodate und…
24-449 Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Jane Doe, by Next Friends and Parents Helen Doe and James Doe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-22 Pending Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (2) biological-sex constitutional-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation Whether Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act, which preserves the traditional practice of excluding biological males from girls' and women's sports teams…
24-99 Dale Folwell, State Treasurer of North Carolina, et al. v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) equal-protection gender-discrimination gender-dysphoria healthcare-exclusion medical-coverage sex-based-classification sex-discrimination state-health-plans transgender-rights Whether a State's decision to decline to provide health benefit coverage for treatments leading to sex changes violates the Equal Protection Clause
24-90 William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria
24A79 Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether the Department of Education's Title IX rule implementing protections for transgender students exceeds its statutory authority or violates cons…
24A78 Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether Title IX regulations implementing protections for transgender students in educational settings exceed the Department of Education's statutory …
24-43 West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Granted Amici (46)Response WaivedRelisted (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Granted Amici (26)Relisted (4) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
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
23A728 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether a university's sexual misconduct proceeding can constitute sex discrimination under Title IX when mixed motives are present and procedural due…
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…
23-6207 Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel Whether the Court denied Petitioner due process proceedings due to allegedly McKay's sex?
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…
23-509 John Doe v. Rollins College Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether the proper test for sex discrimination under Title IX should be the test stated in Doe v. Purdue
23A244 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a…
22-1002 Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix Does constitutional due process require that students accused of sexual assault be permitted the opportunity for attorney-led cross-examination of the…
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination under Title VII based on a supervisor's alleged bias
22-975 Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex constitutes prohibited employment discrimination 'becau…
22-896 The Ohio State University v. Steve Snyder-Hill, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discovery-rule educational-programs federal-financial-assistance private-right-of-action sex-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations title-ix Whether the statute of limitations for a Title IX claim accrues at the time of the alleged injury or under a discovery rule
22-799 Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex
22-93 Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix Whether, in determining compliance with Title IX and the substantial proportionality rule, the athletic participation gap between male and female stud…
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
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…
20-654 Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University Second Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a 'denied ... benefit' to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Educatio…
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…
19-1176 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap Is prior salary '[an]other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act?
19-1169 Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing Whether Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a judicial remedy
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?
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII
18-8315 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5-usc-2302 age-discrimination civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee in-vitro-fertilization medical-leave probationary-employment sex-discrimination termination-rights Shall the Court immediately reinstate back to work a Federal employee who was fired for an attempt to get pregnant, for being discriminated against se…
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful under the Civil Rights Act?
18-658 Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (11) civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Whether a public school has a compelling interest in authorizing students who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex to use locker rooms…
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
18-272 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential Whether prior salary is a factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (14) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender Whether the word 'sex' in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination 'because of . . . sex,' 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant 'gender identity' and inclu…