sexual-orientation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-142 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response Waived equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th…
24-5814 John Russell Howald v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits hate-crime sexual-orientation Whether the Hate Crime Prevention Act's prohibition on bodily injury based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation
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…
22-5531 Patrick O. Christian v. Republican Party, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection majority-rule minority-protection minority-rights protected-class sexual-orientation When is the minority legally excluded, unprotected, deprived, and/or conspired-against?
21-8032 Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person'…
20-7131 Shean Elkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage-equality sexual-orientation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's right to marry based…
19-6479 In Re Charles Russell Rhines 2019-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst…
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?