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25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos…
25-347 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1) billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower The circuits are intractably divided over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) permits False Claims Act suits by plaintiffs who possess detail…
25A26 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-record agency-misconduct judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board settlement-agreement whistleblower Whether an administrative agency's intentional spoliation of the underlying record can invalidate an appellate judgment and require judicial review of…
25A9 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete false-claims-act fraud-allegations original-source public-disclosure qui-tam whistleblower Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application to Extend Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for a w…
24-83 Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) due-process enemy-combatant habeas-corpus military-detention userra whistleblower whistleblower-protection Due-process-violation
24-66 United States, ex rel. Dana Johnson v. Raytheon Company Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-contractor judicial-review national-security standing whistleblower Whether the standard in Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988) precludes a private-sector whistleblower case
24-36 Spencer Freeman Smith v. State Bar of California California 2024-07-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-suspension civil-rights constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process ex-parte-statements hearing-delay notice state-bar-discipline whistleblower due-process-clause
23A1173 Mark Kelly v. Daniel Dorman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete article-three-standing concrete-injury due-process government-investigation nuclear-regulatory-commission whistleblower Whether a plaintiff can establish Article III standing based on alleged reputational and career harm from a government agency's investigation that did…
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court
23-7211 Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland Fifth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims of sexual assault and retaliation as frivolous
23-7082 Christopher A. Selke v. Retained Realty, Inc. Connecticut 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-Sep 9-11 9-11-attacks act-of-1871 civil-rights constitutional-law due-process mortgage-debt nesara sec-whistleblower standing whistleblower Dismissal of whistleblower case
23-955 Robert M. Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-7703 civil-service equitable-powers interim-relief mixed-case preliminary-injunction pro-se-litigant whistleblower Does the district court review a motion for interim relief under the standards for a preliminary injunction, under 5U.S.C. § 7703(c), or under the cou…
23-889 In Re William B. Jolley 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law constitutional-appointment due-process equal-protection merit-systems-protection-board mspb-procedure veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection Due process-violation-in-MSPB-appeals
23A652 United States Ex Rel. 84Partners, LLC v. General Dynamics Electric Boat, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete false-claims-act fraudulent-scheme pleading-standard qui-tam subsafe-standards whistleblower Whether the False Claims Act requires a qui tam relator to plead with particularity the actual submission of false claims at the pleading stage, beyon…
23-532 In Re William B. Jolley 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus mspb veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection Do Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decisions of Veteran and Whistleblower appeals fail for lack of 'due process' where 5 C.F.R. § 1201.57(d), st…
23-5680 Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award Whether Judicial Discretion dissolves in the presence of Direct Evidence, Statutory, and/or Procedural requirements
22-7470 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-violation due-process employment executive-leadership government human-resources personnel-practices prohibited-practices veterans-affairs whistleblower Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law — regarding…
22-7219 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Dismissed IFP certiorari-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination government-misconduct judicial-procedure standing whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-963 John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award Does Dodd-Frank's whistleblower award program exclude whistleblowers whose criminal conduct is only tangentially connected to the enforcement action (…
22-7181 Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a…
22-7039 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-3-courts civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process informa-pauperis judicial-discretion qui-tam rehabilitation-act standing whistleblower whistleblower-protection Can a federal judge open a qui tam case that they dismissed three years ago, turning it into a criminal case against the relator?
22-660 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law intent personnel-action retaliation retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower whistleblower-protection Under the burden-shifting framework that governs Sarbanes-Oxley cases, must a whistleblower prove his employer acted with a 'retaliatory intent' as pa…
22-6123 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-blackmail judicial-independence judicial-misconduct special-master subpoena whistleblower Where the U.S. Court of Appeals did not properly and appropriately proceeded with two consolidated interlocutory appeals on the District Court's order…
22-6003 Whistleblower 7107-16W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-sources due-process informant irs-informant-award judicial-review open-courts open-courts-doctrine plausibility-standard spending-clause whistleblower whistleblower-anonymity Whether the federal courts retain discretion to deny consideration of relevant facts, evidence, and legal issues when reviewing the anonymity and conf…
22-368 Victor Hong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived dodd-frank dodd-frank-act enforcement-action exchange-act monetary-sanctions sec securities-exchange-act securities-law securities-law-violation whistleblower whistleblower-incentive What is an 'action' within the Exchange Act's securities whistleblower incentive program, 15 U.S.C. §78u-6(a)(1)?
22-5683 Gregory Scott Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-amendment antipsychotics brain-integrity brain-shrinkage civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process government-tyranny medical-intervention ninth-amendment unenumerated-rights whistleblower Do Americans have an unenumerated right to retain a full-sized brain?
22-5601 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
22-150 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy Federal Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning
22-144 Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower Is petitioner's reporting of misuse of 'select infectious agents' in BSL-2 lab protected speech?
22-130 Lonnie Tofsrud v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech officer-misconduct pickering-garcetti-framework public-employee public-employee-speech supervisor-retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does a city police detective's complaint to a county attorney about officer misconduct meet the test for private speech?
21-7421 Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the 'No Fear Act?
21-1109 Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due-process, whistleblower, recusal, administrative-law-judge, c…
21-1069 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2022-02-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-stay ohio standing vexatious-litigator whistleblower whistleblower-laws Does the Ohio Vexatious Litigator statute, as applied, violate the United States Constitution and/or Federal Whistleblower Laws
21-6728 David Schied v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-oath criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties government-accountability judicial-immunity judicial-oaths whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the U.S. Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-6729 David Schied v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-accountability criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties judicial-immunity judicial-oaths standing whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-6683 David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. Washington 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W…
21-813 Michael Peck v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights congressional-intent energy-reorganization-act nrc-employment nuclear-regulatory-commission sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Did Congress waive sovereign immunity for NRC whistleblowers?
21-792 Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct has limited weight in the Pickering First Amendment balancing analysis
21-796 Marchand & Rossi, L.L.P., nka Marchand Law, L.L.P. v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act first-to-file-rule fraud fraud-prosecution jurisdictional-bar parallel-state-laws qui-tam statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the FCA first-to-file rule allows dismissal of independently viable claims
21-720 Rodney S. Ratheal v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-process discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act ftca no-admit-no-deny no-admit-no-deny-policy sec-policy securities-and-exchange-commission whistleblower whistleblower-notice Does the SEC publishing a defaming whistleblower notice that implies guilt in violation of its own No Admit No Deny policy directive that after settle…
21-716 David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot…
21-6165 Davenell L. Ash v. Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process electromagnetic-harassment human-trafficking standing terrorist-watchlist whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Did the United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit deny Ms. Ash of her 14th amendment right of due process
21-611 Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place
20-1726 Roy J. Meidinger v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims What are the jurisdiction and limitations of the Tax Court and Federal Claims Court over whistleblower contracts and administrative procedures under 2…
20-1652 Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award Do the statutory rules of the SEC violate the Double Jeopardy Clause and Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
20-1623 David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-rule public-employee retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a police officer has a First Amendment right to speak to a prosecutor about corruption in their department
20-1039 Elizabeth Aviles-Wynkoop v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-employment federal-regulations fifth-amendment whistleblower Can the Federal Government violate a Federal Employee's 5th Amendment right by depriving a federal employee of his or her property right (job) without…
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to su…
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws?
20-732 David Wyche v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Second Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-review civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-termination occupational-safety prima-facie-case termination whistleblower whistleblower-protection workplace-safety Under the OSH Act of 1970 Do I fit the criteria as a whistleblower
20-5810 Ruth Torres v. Marie Diaz, et al. Texas 2020-09-25 Denied IFP abuse-of-process anti-SLAPP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Is a state anti-SLAPP restriction seeking dismissal within 60 days of the filing of claims (ignoring later legal actions) unconstitutional when the cl…
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
19-1332 Tonya Knowles v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-2302 5-usc-2302-(b)(8)-(9) agency-investigation agency-official burden-of-proof investigation prohibited-personnel-practice protected-disclosure retaliation retaliation-motive whistleblower whistleblower-protection When an Employee makes a protected disclosure, regarding a Prohibited Personnel Practice which falls under statue 5 USC 2302(b)(8)-(9), against an age…
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-7837 Francine Slavin v. Residential Rentals, Trustee New Hampshire 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-intervention judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings jurisdiction standing trial-procedure whistleblower Whether the New Hampshire supreme court unconstitutionally intervened in the low court's trial of this case by assigning one of its own justices to po…
19-997 Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W…
19-893 Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption
19-420 Alfred Risien Hamman v. University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Florida 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived carey-v-piphus civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-guarantees dual-enrollment due-process educational-rights extraordinary-cause extraordinary-process institutional-responsibility procedural-compliance procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process whistleblower whistleblower-protection May we be denied procedural due process, including extraordinary process, guaranteed through the Constitution?
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower issues being raised
19-225 United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower Must these employees, Relators in a suit brought under the False Claims Act, have seen and therefore pled the exact content of billings sent to Medica…
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-33 Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the determination under § 1514A(a) as to whether an employee's belief was objectively reasonable be made by the trier of fact, so long as reaso…
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the …
18-7892 Sheila J. Halousek v. California Public Employees' Retirement System California 2019-02-11 Denied IFP autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-retaliation osha osha-protections privacy privacy-rights whistleblower workplace-safety What is required for the consistent application of civil rights to be 'free and independent,' 'enjoying and defending life and liberty,' and 'pursuing…
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law?
18-808 Kirk E. Webster v. Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process intelligence-agency retaliation settlement whistleblower Whether a settlement agreement should be rendered legally invalid if coerced by a discriminating management official
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants' code-of-conduct and absolute-relief-procedures?
18-6453 Celestine G. Thompson v. Kirstjen Nielson, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech immigration retaliation standing whistleblower Were DHS-ICE officials in Plan to Criminalize Appellants
18-251 Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2018-08-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession
18-219 Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Whether the Maryland Mortgage Task Force, DHS & FBI partners of the respondent engaged in economic espionage and domestic treason against the United S…
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o…
18-38 Illya Erwin v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-cfr-315-804 5-usc-1221 5-usc-2302 administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-circuit personnel-action probationary-employee prohibited-personnel-practice termination-defense whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the agency can claim it would have taken the same personnel action absent whistleblower disclosure based on grounds not stated in the terminat…