No. 19-178

Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-08
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment
Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony deprive a plaintiff of his Seventh Amendment right to make his case to a jury?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony deprive a plaintiff of his Seventh Amendment right to make his case to a jury?

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-11-06
Reply of petitioner Jagdish Laul filed. (Received 11/12/2019)
2019-10-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-09
Brief of respondent Los Alamos National Laboratories in opposition filed.
2019-08-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 9, 2019.
2019-08-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 9, 2019 to October 9, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-08-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 9, 2019)

Attorneys

Jagdish Laul
Trace L. RabernTrace L. Rabern, Attorney and Counselor at Law, LL, Petitioner
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Ellen Sullivan CaseyHinkle Shanor LLP, Respondent