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 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 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 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 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 Presumed Complete 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…