wrongful-termination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5351 Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment allow federal employees equal protection and accountability for wrongful termination
24-106 Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination employment-discrimination
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
24-5023 Willie Edward Nichols v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP disability-discrimination employment-discrimination long-term-employment management-misconduct part-time-employment pay-cut pay-reduction retaliation vacation-pay workplace-rights wrongful-termination Question not identified
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-836 Samer Ali-Hasan v. St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination termination title-vii wrongful-termination Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows is…
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) permits a plaintiff to pursue employment discrimination claims against a municipal employer when all…
23-5697 Asem Farooq v. Manheim Remarketing, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration-dismissal civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-protected-class military-service military-service-protection wrongful-termination Whether an employer can arbitrarily dismiss an employee who is a federally protected class member and was terminated in violation of the rules announc…
23-5329 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-records adverse-action civil-rights discrimination discrimination-complaint due-process equal-employment-opportunity evidence-withholding retaliation sixth-amendment wrongful-termination Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5005 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination protected-class title-vii workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally and knowingly discriminate against an employee based on race-national-origin-gender-sexual-orientation?
22-1244 Angela Joseph v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-procedure job-performance protected-class summary-judgment wrongful-termination Whether summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civic Procedure Rule 56 standard was improperly granted
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?
22-6236 Michele Gray v. GC Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada age-discrimination civil-rights disability-rights eeoc employment-discrimination harassment social-security wrongful-termination Is the dismissal of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security Act, Equal Employment Oppo…
21-8113 Toya Gibson v. Wayfair, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation genetic-information-discrimination genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act religious-accommodation religious-discrimination wrongful-termination Whether the adverse employment action of wrongful termination in response to a dental disability, the use of genetic information to deny future FMLA l…
21-7272 Delila Uwasomba v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination employment-interference financial-burden financial-harm job-security judicial-review legal-remedy standing wrongful-termination Whether the Federal and Circuit Court erred in finding it acceptable for Bank of America and its affiliates to remove the petitioner from their positi…
21-123 Marguerite T. Martin v. Teleperformance Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination medical-condition privacy reasonable-accommodation security-breach termination wrongful-termination Whether the plaintiff's anemia condition and privacy concerns were properly considered in the termination of her employment due to a security breach
21-5222 Adrienne Bush v. Kenneth Nathan, Trustee Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 11-usc-522(d)(11)(E) bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption chapter-13 chapter-7 civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination lawsuit-proceeds trustee-discretion wrongful-termination Does 11 USC 522(d)(11)(E) exempt employment-discrimination lawsuits?
20-1810 Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the law when the court denied the petitioner's motion to proceed in forma pau…
20-8375 Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination Did Geisinger Hospital discriminate, harass, and inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Jeffrey Liberto and Luisa Liberto in violation of Title VII a…
20-1582 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived due-process employer-policy employment-discrimination liberty-interest stigma stigma-harm summary-judgment wrongful-termination whether-a-plaintiff-has-to-name-similarly-situated-employees-or-present-circumstantial-evidence-of-discriminatory-intent
20-7104 Vincent Lyle Badkin v. Lockheed Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement duty-of-fair-representation judicial-review labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act section-301 wrongful-termination Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in misquoting the plaintiff's complaint and incorrectly opining that the plaintiff alleged the union …
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to su…
20-6187 Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a FMLA time limitation violation is barred from pursuing a willful violation claim
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
19-8369 LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci…
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra…
19-7158 Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC Second Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote
19-6794 Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the United States District Court's decision of a time-bar verdict on the issue of 'willf…
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?
19-133 Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury?
19-5116 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination Whether employees can be protected when an institution can formulate a false narrative for violation of company policy, even when the employee is prov…
19-5052 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court retaliation administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment first-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-speech labor-law wrongful-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff violated his First Amendment rights, given the alleged pretext, perjury, and fraud on the court involved in t…
18-9229 Matthew DeRyan v. East Valley School District Washington 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-protections ada-rights-violation administrative-investigation civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process false-allegations false-arrest federal-jurisdiction fraud-by-court k-12-classrooms social-security-disability standing wrongful-termination Whether the Lower courts, if in violation of Petitioner's Disability-Rights, disregarding attempts at asserting Federal-ADA-Rights, denials of motions…
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…
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants' code-of-conduct and absolute-relief-procedures?
18-6690 Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination Does the Petitioner have the right to sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even after he has received his letter of right to sue?
18-250 Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants?