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25-6282 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process homeland-security labor-department osha-complaint whistleblower-protection 1. Whether or Not the Second (2nd) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of th…
25-450 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence personnel-action protected-conduct whistleblower-protection Whether AIR 21's affirmative defense is satisfied where an employer proves protected activity played only a limited role along with non-protected cond…
25-5617 Magdoulen A. Sawires v. Elizabeth Board of Education, et al. New Jersey 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation teacher-dismissal whistleblower-protection Teacher wrongfully dismissed, according to New Jersey Statutes Title 18A. Education 18A § 17-47, for school employees in New Jersey " When the dismiss…
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-164 Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response Waived employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove "retaliatory intent" in an Individual Right to Action, (IRA), under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancem…
25-5298 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection 1. Whether a federal employee's speech —reporting unsafe school conditions, unauthorized personnel practices, and retaliation to oversight bodies —is…
25A141 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete burden-shifting contributing-factor employment-discrimination retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision requires a plaintiff to prove that their protected activity was a substantial or m…
25-103 BofI Federal Bank, nka Axos Bank v. Charles Matthew Erhart Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law personnel-action sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Under AIR-21's two-step framework, can evidence showing an employee's protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action…
25A86 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions: 1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System…
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence
24-6854 Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-misconduct sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit whistleblower-protection Did the Tenth Circuit err in disregarding the unanimous findings of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1514A?
24A731 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-tribunal due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict mandamus-relief whistleblower-protection Whether the overlapping jurisdictional conflicts between federal courts and administrative tribunals violate due process and improperly obstruct judic…
24A730 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service-reform due-process federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-protection Whether the procedural missteps and jurisdictional errors in the Merit Systems Protection Board and Federal Circuit proceedings constitute a violation…
24-6252 Rebecca Wu v. Gina Carreon, et al. California 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process government-tort-claims preemption section-1983 whistleblower-protection Whether California Code of Civil Procedure 1714.10 preempts or violates federal civil rights statutes and constitutional protections when applied to S…
24-6127 Jocelyn Lisa Doyle v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law employment-discrimination judicial-review prohibited-personnel-practice reinstatement whistleblower-protection Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act by improperly dismissing a whistleblower's claims of retaliation an…
24-6088 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud civil-rights constitutional-law due-process organized-crime whistleblower-protection Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case now a ripe Article III case ready to proceed to discovery and jury trial as an 18 USC Chapter 13, Civ…
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the D.C. Circuit improperly bifurcated the petitioner's joint submissions and restricted access to judicial review for a military detainee's h…
24-468 Jo Spence v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure liberal-pleading-standard pro-se-pleading rule-12b6 veterans-affairs whistleblower-protection Whether the Supreme Court's ruling on the liberal pleading standard for pro se attorneys was premature and inconsistent with precedent, and whether th…
24-5703 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-action discrimination-claims judicial-review procedural-due-process whistleblower-protection Whether the district court improperly dismissed a pro se plaintiff's administrative law claims challenging the International Holocaust Remembrance All…
24-339 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure court-fee-waiver federal-employee-rights government-accountability userra-rights whistleblower-protection Does the whistleblower protection provisions of USERRA require waiver of court fees for federal employees engaged in protected whistleblowing activiti…
24A278 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-forfeiture due-process federal-employment fifth-amendment first-amendment whistleblower-protection Whether the Fifth Amendment and First Amendment protect a federal employee's due process rights and right to petition when challenging civil forfeitur…
24A147 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-review civil-service interlocutory-appeal mspb-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation whistleblower-protection Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as a respondent in federal appeals challenging its procedural or jurisdictiona…
24-5177 Margaret M. Reed v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure agency-policy civil-rights due-process federal-code-of-ethics federal-ethics personnel-actions retaliation whistleblower-protection Whistleblower-protection-act
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
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified
24-52 Gunes Biray v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2024-07-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process sec-enforcement securities-law securities-regulation whistleblower-protection Does the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) possess absolute immunity from appellate scrutiny when it arbitrarily or capriciously …
23-1362 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act appointments-clause article-iii due-process freedom-of-information-act privacy-act sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Is it appropriate for courts to sua sponte dismiss actions for want of subject matter jurisdiction despite Congress' intent to allow enforcement of es…
23A1097 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law due-process fee-waiver military-employment userra whistleblower-protection Whether the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) mandates court fee waivers for federal employees engaged in protected w…
23A984 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-tribunal article-iii-review chevron-deference constitutional-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Whether administrative law judges in agency tribunals exceed their constitutional and statutory jurisdiction when adjudicating whistleblower protectio…
23A955 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-24 Presumed Complete administrative-review certiorari-review federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether a federal whistleblower who alleges retaliation and wrongful termination can challenge an agency's credibility determination and seek correcti…
23-7072 Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorough …
23-7018 Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of Personnel Management be considered Unconstitutional?
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
23A739 Irina Collier v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-misconduct institutional-fraud political-conspiracy retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the First Amendment protects a whistleblower's claims of systemic institutional fraud and potential political conspiracy when alleging retalia…
23-6651 Falastin Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection Will the courts recognize that individuals that work for the U.S. Government are not above U.S. law?
23A701 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-01-30 Presumed Complete agency-deference due-process employment-law national-security security-clearance whistleblower-protection Whether the Supreme Court should reconsider the Egan precedent regarding national security whistleblower protections and the scope of agency discretio…
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof?
23-6391 Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection Are minority males who oppose discrimination entitled to equal-protection
23-6059 Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-bias judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation standing whistleblower-protection Why did the Federal Circuit Court ignore Petitioner's MSPB case regarding her IRA
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…
23-5924 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. American Medical Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-crime genocide human-rights international-law judicial-procedure standing whistleblower-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and due process violations
23-5650 Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process national-security public-interest rule-of-law standing title-ix whistleblower-protection Whether the illegal denial of 'Due Process' to Petitioner and the harm being persistently inflicted upon him, violates the rights promised by the U.S.…
23-43 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-laws court-preemption due-process federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute judicial-review jurisdiction-conflict preemption state-jurisdiction supersedeas-bond whistleblower-protection When there is admitted by courts conflict between the federal courts and state courts on such all-important matters such as jurisdiction, which court …
22-7657 Annecia M. Fort v. Department of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 49-usc-31105 coercion-prohibition drive-time-limits electronic-logging-devices internal-reporting motor-carrier motor-carrier-regulations public-safety public-safety-reporting staa whistleblower-protection Is disclosing public safety concerns to your management (internal reporting) a protected activity?
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?
22-6740 Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing Did the District court and the Court of Appeal erred in denying the Petitioner her legal rights within her legal capacity from the facts in her case a…
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…
22-6284 Bryan M. Espinoza v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bell-v-hood bivens-action bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights davis-v-passman federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment obstruction-of-justice whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act What is the proper cause of action under Bivens for a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act
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?
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
21-1387 Erik Leckner v. General Dynamics Information Technology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights cybersecurity-risk due-process free-speech retaliation-claim sarbanes-oxley standing whistleblower-protection Whether the court of appeals failed to recognize that SOX whistleblower protections does extend to cybersecurity risks and breaches
21-1383 Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the Due Process Clause protects a state-created property interest in whistleblower protections
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?
21-1133 Charles Abrahamsen v. Department of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law anesthesia anesthesia-risks bullying-healthcare medical-disclosure orthopedic-surgery public-health-safety reasonable-belief whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the scope of the substantial and specific danger to public health and safety provision in 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8) was erroneously limited
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…
21-6683 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
21-799 Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) protects employees from retaliation occurring after the provisio…
21-443 William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the term 'employee' in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) includes someone who is no longer an employee when the alleged retaliation takes place
20-1781 Frederick B. Wright v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived adverse-action federal-water-pollution-control-act motivating-factor reasonable-belief safe-drinking-water-act whistleblower-protection Whether an employer's professing motivating factor should override a whistleblower employee's reasonable belief of retaliation
20-1625 David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute Whether Section 1102.5(b) requires a whistleblower to identify a specific statute, rule, or regulation
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
20-1365 In Re Arno P. Kuigoua 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's appeal from summary judgment when the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, i…
20-7562 Kamme O v. Texas A&M University and System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-rights gender-bias legal-representation standing whistleblower-protection workplace-discrimination Are employment-rights-for-everyone-or-just-lawyers?
20-1229 James W. Robertson, Sr. v. Intratek Computer, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-scheme arbitration-enforcement employment-rights federal-contract government-subcontractor mandatory-arbitration non-waiver-provision statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Does mandatory compelled arbitration of claims under 41 U.S.C. § 4712 disrupt the administrative scheme set up by Congress to remedy and enforce viola…
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Circui…
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?
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to require federal judges to disclose information relevant to disqualification?
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
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
20-458 Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision
20-5828 Roderick A. Carter v. CPC Logistics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof driver-fatigue employer-admissions employment-discrimination federal-regulations protected-activity retaliation staa-protection trucking-safety whistleblower-protection When an employer admits to a violation in writing to the federal government, should they be held accountable to their words?
20-393 Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC West Virginia 2020-09-25 Denied asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection What legal issues are being raised?
20-269 In Re Barbara Stone 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-enterprise due-process ex-parte-judgment extortion fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-stripping whistleblower-protection writ-of-prohibition Should a Writ of Prohibition be issued
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…
19-1230 Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection Did the court below fail to use an appropriate standard of review when granting all the dismissal motions without recognizing the petitioner's evidenc…
19-1083 Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. Delaware 2020-03-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection Whether the Delaware Supreme Court's application of sovereign immunity unconstitutionally places state financial interests above individual rights
19-7708 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-employment-opportunity hate-crimes retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-reprisal Why the Federal Agencies and the Intelligence Community (IC) are allowed to abuse and torture the aggrieved Petitioner to death
19-7686 Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VH 42 U.S.C. 2000(e)
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-788 Erin Daly v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement blacklisting dodd-frank employment-law finra-form-u-5 retaliation sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act sec-violations whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act protects whistleblowers from retaliation by former employers
19-653 Theresa Ortloff v. Dave Trimmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response Waived connick-v-myers due-process first-amendment first-amendment-speech-public-interest-connick-v-m free-speech procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-speech public-interest speech whistleblower-protection Must the entire record, including motives, main thrust of the speech, and all instances of speech be reviewed under Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 1388 (1…
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?
19-144 James Thomas Ryan v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process employment federal-circuit federal-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board notice-and-opportunity personnel-action whistleblower-protection Can the government sustain a specification without giving the employee notice?
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…
18-9667 Loretta J. Alford v. Tina Ballard, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights federal-employment general-services-administration government-employment inspector-general personnel-practices prohibited-personnel-actions prohibited-personnel-practices retaliation timecard-fraud whistleblower-protection Does the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act indicate that the General Services Administration handles personnel actions for the AbilityOne Commission?
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 …
18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle…
18-537 Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Whether a reasonable jury could have found that the petitioner's termination was in retaliation for whistleblowing
18-278 Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. New York 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection Are men in America becoming a discriminated class?
18-207 George Duggan v. Department of Defense Ninth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012, does the Agency'…
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…
18-5019 Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. Second Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection Why it was done Purposely?
24A507 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete due-process judicial-oversight national-security posse-comitatus userra whistleblower-protection Whether the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and the Posse Comitatus Act protect federal employees from unlawful det…