workplace-harassment

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25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir…
25A844 Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application dei-policy employment-selection hostile-work-environment race-discrimination section-1981 workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25-6277 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights eeo-claim employment-discrimination federal-employees postal-service workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25A142 Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25-121 Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation Iowa 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger 1. Whether the "zone of danger" test articulated in Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gottshall, 512 U.S. 532 (1994), applies to wrongful death claims premis…
24-6380 Megan Rust v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied IFP civil-rights-violation code-of-conduct employment-discrimination employment-retaliation labor-law workplace-harassment Whether LabCorp's change of Petitioner's employment status from full-time to vacation coverage in retaliation for Petitioner's report of bullying and …
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun…
24-508 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process false-statements first-amendment performance-appraisal workplace-harassment 1. Whether 5th Amendment due process clause of the constitution of the United States is impeded if fairness of the performance appraisal, performance …
24-123 Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 Tenth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation I've kept fighting for 6 years already. The 2nd Summary Judgment at Federal Colorado and Appeal Courts is seriously unjust and has many errors. The ke…
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 1. The first question presented is which court could have jurisdiction in improving laws keeping an employee from being terminated for having reported…
23-7667 Renee Chrustowski v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights diversity employment-discrimination harassment protected-class retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons. 2. Whether petitioner was te…
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment In Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), this Court held that under Ti…
23-5069 Lola Bonitta McGee v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights disability due-process employee-rights federal-employment government-accountability medical-disability retaliation workplace-discrimination workplace-harassment 1. When an exemplary employee works for the United States Postal Service, in management, and the employee was discriminated against, by management, th…
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e2 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national ori…
22-6910 Carolyn L. Fields v. Hunter Conrad, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination government-job human-relations-commission pro-se-representation retaliation standing workplace-harassment wrongful-termination ISN'T TRUE THAT EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO AN ATTORNEY? WHAT WAS MY CHANCE OF SUCCESS WITHOUT PROPER REPRESENTATION? DOES THIS CASE NOT HAVE MERIT AND …
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, "Hostile Environment" for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
21-5926 Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment 1. Quotes in the Order (p.6'4-7; p.9-8-13)issued by the Court of Appeal on 5/13/2021 such as "Kunik did not allege any overt discrimination (emphasis …
21-359 Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive that the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonne…
21-5056 Arthur Vincent v. AutoZone Fourth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discipline eeoc employment-discrimination harassment job-assignment retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment AutoZone, Defendant, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. AutoZone negligently violated EEOC Laws Under Civil Rights Act of 1964, in r…
20-7875 Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems Eighth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment With a goal of addressing the facts in this case, Petitioner asks if the Supreme Court of the United States will authorize the release of Petitioner's…
20-1004 Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a trier of f…
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination (I). Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally terminate the employment of an "AT WILL" employee because he/she has filed or attempted to file a …
19-260 Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty…
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment An estimated 10 million or 4% of US internet users have been threatened with or experienced the posting of explicit intimate images without their cons…
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors The central question presented in this case is whether a false rumor, alleged to have originated out of jealousy, that a female employee received a pr…
18-8553 Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified.
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment An EEOC Complaint should not be "strictly interpreted" due process of law should be administered for evidence to be given to the court; contradictions…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment 1. Can a supervisor or an agency legally retaliate against an employee (by quickly 'flipping' the employee's 'good faith' report) for reporting HIPAA …