sexual-harassment

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25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
25-139 Michele A. Cornelius v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legislative-intent sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Does "any dispute " under the EFAA mean any dispute arising between the parties or just the first dispute arising between the parties?
24-1215 Miniso Depot CA, Inc., et al. v. Yongtong Liu California 2025-05-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t…
24-6724 Maryann Maltese v. Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied IFP adult-survivors-act ethics-commission mandatory-reporting public-officer sexual-harassment writ-of-certiorari Whether a public officer has the right to file a Writ of Certiorari under NYS law regarding Adult Survivors Act claims and public integrity crimes
24-5789 Saretta Mildred Gross v. United Parcel Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collective-bargaining employment-discrimination jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff sexual-harassment Whether a district court errs in dismissing a pro se plaintiff's complaint without fully considering incorporated earlier complaints and allegations o…
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…
24-5511 Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Second Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix Does fraudulent tailoring of sexual assault case outcomes and failure to protect student privacy constitute deliberate indifference under Title IX?
24-33 Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board Iowa 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech First Amendment-protection
23-7531 Tiffany P. Range v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-representation pro-se settlement sexual-harassment standing How can I settle out with the courts or negotiate an agreement to be made whole?
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…
23-6995 Rosaura Strous v. Superior Court of California, Yuma County Ninth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process employment-law judicial-procedure sexual-discrimination sexual-harassment standing What claims did you raise to the court below?
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…
23-544 Teresa Marie Gaffney v. The Florida Bar Florida 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homestead-property impartial-tribunal notice opportunity-to-be-heard sexual-harassment Whether it is a denial of due process, (1) notice; (2) an opportunity to be heard; and (3) an impartial tribunal, to not allow the Petitioner to condu…
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 Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can …
22-949 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. Utah 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner?
22-668 Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination Should any law repugnant to the US Constitution prevail?
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…
22-123 University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix Can schools be liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified?
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
21-6498 Hye-Young Park v. Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915-e-2-b collateral-estoppel judge judicial-remedies plausibility-standard prior-suit res-judicata sexual-harassment university-policy Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel prevent relitigation of claims and issues in a prior suit when a judge's acts in the prior suit led to a …
20-8473 Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii Whether the Plaintiff was provided notice timely of the Summary Judgement ruling?
20-1769 Cheryl Fritze v. Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights education off-campus off-campus-internship public-body sexual-harassment student-intern title-ix whistle-blower Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 affords a student intern the same legal protection against sexual harassment during an off ca…
20-559 Jane Doe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t…
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title …
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…
19-8007 Gwendolyn Gabriel v. Merry Outlaw Texas 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice partnership-law perjury sexual-harassment standing Whether the Seventh Amendment Right to a Jury Trial protects against biased and corrupt judges
19-509 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment
19-467 Chixapkaid Donald Michael Pavel v. University of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived confrontation cross-examination due-process employment-rights public-university sexual-harassment tenure termination union Do due-process rights include confronting and cross-examining accuser?
19-274 Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by foreclosing Petitioner's ability to challenge the constitutional validity of a public university's speech regulatio…
18A1323 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation eeoc-charges employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-discharge sexual-harassment Whether an employer's alleged pattern of discriminatory conduct, including disability accommodation denials, sexual harassment, and retaliatory discha…
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
18-8438 Abdul Cole v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu…
18-7093 Deidre Holmes Clark v. Allen & Overy, LLP New York 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-stability first-amendment free-speech psychiatric-evaluation sexual-harassment standing Whether a sexual harassment motion can be dismissed, solely on the basis of her right to free speech
18-6476 Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. Michigan 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse Must a court overlook co-workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile environm…
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?
18-5670 Margaret Campise v. New York Commissioner of Labor New York 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vii civil-rights constructive-termination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-environment hostile-work-environment sexual-harassment workplace workplace-rights Are the lower courts above the law?