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25-6762 Eileen McLaughlin v. Community Living Association, et al. Maine 2026-02-10 Pending IFP civil-liberties due-process federal-law judicial-review medical-rights workers-compensation Whether the court can review lower court decisions in a workers' compensation case involving alleged judicial misconduct, medical rights, and potentia…
25-489 Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation Does the 90-Day limit on challenging medical stability determinations violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of substantive due process, equal …
25-377 North American Credit Services, Inc. v. Abdul Crawford Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bona-fide-error consumer-debt debt-collection fdcpa medical-debt workers-compensation Whether the FDCPA requires third party debt collectors to conduct an independent preemptive investigation to review for all potential defects or chall…
25-5059 James R. Lowe v. North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance North Dakota 2025-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law insurance-liability medical-benefits pre-existing-conditions workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether Workforce Safety and Insurance can deny continued medical benefits for a work-related injury based on alleged pre-existing conditions
24-6944 Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety Whether a Judge of Compensation Claims' jurisdictional ruling over an employee's Fourteenth Amendment claim creates an unconstitutional judicial void …
24A212 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federalism state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction workers-compensation Whether federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction may entertain state law workers' compensation claims that a state legislature has mandated mu…
24-82 Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, aka Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response Waived course-of-business employer-liability employment medical-licensing unlawful-employment worker's-compensation workers-compensation workplace-liability workplace-safety wrongful-death Is illegal work considered legitimate work?
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
24-5081 Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti…
23-1370 David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. New York 2024-07-02 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-requirements right-to-counsel workers-compensation Is due process of law violated by refusal to hear administrative appeal due to omission in information block?
23-7800 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. Georgia 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp Whether the Administrative Law Judge made correct judgments regarding the compensability of the claimant's injuries, the award of TTD benefits, and th…
23A1063 David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. New York 2024-05-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jetblue-airways workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether state workers' compensation proceedings violated a claimant's constitutional due process and equal protection rights in a workplace injury dis…
23-7320 Darrin Espinosa v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights employment-discrimination essential-functions job-performance reasonable-accommodation termination termination-of-employment workers-compensation Does a disabled person have the right to perform a job even though he does not need accommodations to perform all essential functions of the job?
23-7214 Chanel Tarrant v. Christiana Care, et al. Delaware 2024-04-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-benefits employment-law long-term-disability occupational-safety tort-law workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether a hospital is required to provide long-term disability benefits to an employee after working for them for 30 years and getting injured on the …
23-7006 Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. Kentucky 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation Whether the Supreme Court's decision affirmed the Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law
23-989 Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation Where petitioner sought removal of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties involving ad…
23-368 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held that an injured maritime employee who has a workers' compensation remedy under the Longshore and Harbor Worke…
23-5622 Ervie Savage v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability disability-insurance employer-liability employment employment-law insurance sedgwick-claims workers-compensation workplace-injury Whether Walmart Stores has the right to decide not to cover an employee injured on the job
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation Whether the law of the case doctrine precludes a successor judge's reconsideration of prior interlocutory orders absent some altered circumstance, and…
22-7572 Tyrone Doutherd v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-discrimination civil-rights due-process preemption supremacy-clause workers-compensation Do the federal civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes expressly or impliedly pre-empt state workers' compensation laws?
22-1027 The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board
22-7201 Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy-against-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation workers-compensation Is it a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment on Freedom of Speech or abuse of power when Workers' Compensation Commissioners during he…
22-941 Hatem Saied v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-03-28 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment benefits bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel employer-liability medical-care workers-compensation Should the employer be responsible for fully paying all benefits till the date of the WCJ's decision, even if the worker had recovered earlier?
22-6351 Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery
22-107 Marianne E. Burke v. Criterion General, Inc., et al. Alaska 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process funeral-expenses gross-negligence legal-representation schiel wedmore white workers-compensation workplace-negligence workplace-safety Was Workers' Compensation law and the cases of Schiel, Wedmore, and White involving mostly injury, misapplied to this case; a case that is about gross…
22-5120 Glendrick Gardner v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment government-liability workers-compensation Whether the Gardner's workers' compensation claim was properly denied by LEUCG (Waste Management)
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system
21-1390 Robert LaPoint v. Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-enforcement full-faith-and-credit interstate-law jurisdiction legal-preclusion res-judicata state-jurisdiction state-law workers-compensation Does the full faith and credit clause preclude enforcement of a claim dismissed as unenforceable under one State's law in another State?
21-1239 Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati…
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…
21-998 Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. Minnesota 2022-01-13 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee…
21-777 Blake Edward Halfacre v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law employment-rights exclusive-provisions federal-employees federal-employment-compensation-act federal-tort-claims-act light-duty-job light-duty-job-offer united-states-court-of-appeals workers-compensation Are the 'exclusive provisions' in the FECA (Federal Employment Compensation Act) applicable, or available to Federal Employees who also have no formal…
21-6421 Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. Virginia 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation Question not identified
21-675 Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation Whether the First Circuit's finding that a US Labor Director could oppose Petitioners' wage-loss claims to protect a privately-financed Fund violates …
21-676 Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. Minnesota 2021-11-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for…
21-5909 Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. Virginia 2021-10-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney misc…
21-404 United States v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (1) contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers is barred by intergovernmental-immunity or authorized b…
21-5354 Bruce S. Joyner v. The News Journal Delaware 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights compensation-claim defective-equipment due-process employment-contract employment-contracts industrial-accident labor-law termination-notice workers-compensation Whether the plaintiff's employment contract was breached, and the plaintiff is entitled to additional compensation due to an on-the-job injury
20-1403 Benny Hernandez v. Excel Contractors, Inc. Louisiana 2021-04-07 Denied bone-growth-stimulator closed-records federal-court-procedure medical-malpractice spinal-cord-injury workers-compensation Whether the Soeket M50-2018 Spinal Cord Injury Bone Growth Stimulator is Compensable under Workers' Compensation
20-7670 Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Question not identified
20-1230 In Re Reginald L. Sydnor 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law-judge administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act constitutional-appointment due-process lucia-v-sec mandamus merit-systems-protection-board standing united-states-constitution Does petitioner's repeated timely requests for his appropriate ALJ due process hearing before a constitutionally appointed board ALJ, although all wer…
20-748 PHI Air Medical, LLC v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied Amici (3) air-ambulance air-carriers airline-deregulation-act mccarran-ferguson-act medicare-rate preemption rate-regulation workers-compensation Whether the ADA preempts a state workers' compensation system that limits the prices an air-ambulance company can charge and collect for its air-trans…
20-6158 Clara Lewis Brockington v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP discrimination due-process education-requirements employment-termination equal-protection master's-degree test-administration workers-compensation workplace-discrimination why-was-plaintiff-terminated-from-employment
20-159 John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. Minnesota 2020-08-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation Does a State's workers compensation statute violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently ba…
20-105 John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2020-07-31 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall…
20-41 Warren Wexler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion administrative-law attending-physician discretion jurisdiction medical-evaluation occupational-injury periodic-report second-opinion workers-compensation Whether it is within the OWCP's discretion to not request a periodic report from the AP but to instead obtain a periodic report by scheduling a second…
19-1442 Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law …
19-1364 Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the decision that Petitioners' claim is barred by Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-108(a) and the common l…
19-8434 Audrey Jean Ukkerd v. State Bar of California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights due-process fraud legal-ethics medical-evaluation professional-responsibility settlement-conference workers-compensation Why did Attorney Michael Siegel state that the State Bar of California asserted certain claims in the complaint?
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2020-03-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation Does the Workers' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating schedul…
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings
19-1101 Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini First Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation Whether the court of appeals erred in treating Canada's legislative decision to compensate its consular employees for workplace injuries exclusively u…
19-7134 Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations What is the proper interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v)
19-6822 Guy Cozzi v. American Stock Exchange, et al. New York 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law article-8-a due-process equal-protection judicial-review rb-89 separation-of-powers stare-decisis workers-compensation Were the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim and RB-89 rehearing request arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of disc…
19-6782 Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in requesting all documents from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on the petitioner's appe…
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado 2019-11-18 Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process
19-367 Shambria Necole Smith v. Kansa Technology, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied appeal district-court district-court-procedure due-process due-process,jury-tampering,jury-taint,trial-procee evidence-admissibility jury-taint jury-tampering trial-proceedings workers-compensation Whether the District Court violated the Due Process Clause by disallowing the interview of the jurors
19-5843 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal court-trial due-process insurance-claims judicial-procedure medical-treatment pro-se-petition procedural-fairness standing unfair unfair-dismissal workers-compensation Why the US COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT adopted the decision from the US DISTRICT COURT
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-1556 Peggy Edwards, et al. v. Louisiana Workforce Commission, et al. Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-adjudication agency-decision burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard medical-claims medical-treatment standing workers-compensation Does the Louisiana administrative system for adjudicating medical claims by injured workers violate due process
18-1559 Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation Why did the Colorado courts refuse to seek the truth in this case?
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
18-9480 Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center Whether the Insurance Service's denial of Act 534 benefits and light duty work for the petitioner's second injury was proper under the relevant worker…
18-9337 Ronnie Barnes v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law anatomical-definition anatomy back-injury civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process neck-injury permanent-disability-rating statutory-interpretation workers-compensation workers-compensation-act Does the term 'Back' as used in the Award of June 01,1982 include petitioner's neck?
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy rendered him disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-9078 Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation Whether the burden of proof for workers' compensation benefits should be on the plaintiff or defendant, and whether a compromise and release agreement…
18-8191 Marianne E. Burke, Mother of Abigail E. Caudle, Deceased v. Raven Electric, Inc., et al. Alaska 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP death-in-the-workplace death-in-workplace employee-death employer-liability gross-negligence justice-for-victims legal-remedy workers-compensation workplace-safety Should America's Workers' Compensation laws continue to allow all employers 'no liability' in all accidents and all injuries including death?
18-1099 Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund Montana 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be…
18-1047 Crystal Wade v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived disability-discrimination employment-law indefinite-leave medical-leave prima-facie-case qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act workers-compensation Whether a court of appeals ruling that denied a request for indefinite medical leave as a reasonable accommodation under the Rehabilitation Act underm…
18-7775 Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions?
18-6835 Ricardo Enriquez Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP benefits civil-rights due-process eligibility prison statutory-limits workers-compensation Can compensation be denied for workplace injuries that have statutory limits on eligibility and benefits that may be less than in the regular workers'…
18-488 In Re Pamela Denise Idlett 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-determination due-process federal-agency judicial-misconduct material-evidence social-security social-security-disability social-security-policy standing Whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) gives verbal acknowledgement in his federal hearing to a known disabil…
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Whether the petitioner's workers' compensation claim was improperly denied
18-263 Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. Illinois 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th…
18-5489 Min Ho Kwon v. Hyoun Phil Won, et al. Virginia 2018-08-08 Denied IFP assault civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process employment injury insurance-claim liability personal-injury standing worker's-compensation workers-compensation Whether Hyoun, Chan, and Liberty should compensate Kwon for the assault and resulting injuries and lost income
18-101 Patrick Jon Evers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation Can false representations be 'material' for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor …
18-5282 Perry V. Moss v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process equal-protection life-pension occupational-variant property statutory-conduct takings workers-compensation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property were violated by the California Workers Compensation Appeals Board's ine…
18-5237 Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. New York 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional?