| 25-932 |
Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
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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 |
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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 WaivedIFP |
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 |
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age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether an employer's multiple evaluation attempts and termination of an employee after failed performance assessments constitute unlawful race and ag… |
| 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 |
Whether the 'zone of danger' test from Gottshall applies to FELA wrongful death claims involving employee suicide, and whether workplace harassment-in… |
| 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 in work schedule from full-time to vacation coverage constitutes retaliatory conduct in violation of the company's Code of Co… |
| 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 Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Amendment due process clause and First Amendment Petition Clause are violated by false performance appraisals and administrative pro… |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons |
| 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 |
Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority to direct and overs… |
| 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 |
when-an-exemplary-employee-is-discriminated-against |
| 22-1247 |
Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can … |
| 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 |
Is everyone entitled to an attorney? |
| 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 |
Whether the presence of defendants' recorded slurs is indispensable for a discrimination case or if ample evidence of discriminatory actions is suffic… |
| 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 |
Whether the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonnell Douglas v. Green's burden-shifting analysis is t… |
| 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 |
Whether AutoZone violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through negligent harassment, discipline, discharge, job assignments, promotions, … |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court will authorize the release of Petitioner's 'complete' Personal File to determine the reason and legitimacy of job terminatio… |
| 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 |
Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII claim to a trier of fact |
| 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 |
Is it lawful for an employer to terminate an at-will employee for filing a harassment complaint? |
| 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 |
Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace? |
| 18-1442 |
Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
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civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors |
Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII |
| 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 |
Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a… |
| 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 |
How should a court handle an EEOC Complaint? What information should be formally on the Complaint for the court to review? |
| 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 |
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Presumed Complete |
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employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment |
Whether a public employer may legally retaliate against an employee for making good faith reports of workplace misconduct and potential HIPAA violatio… |