No. 21-5191

Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-07-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation.

2. Whether an employee have the right to verbally be called the N-word in the workplace.

3. Whether foe N-word is severe enough to create a hostile work environment under Title VII of foe Civil Right Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. §2000e.

4. Whether the circumstances of foe use of racial epithets in the workplace are sufficiently serious enough to create a hostile work environment is protected under Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. §2000e.

5. Whether an employee that show they were treated differently from similar situated employees are protected under foe Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. 2000e.

6. Whether a hostile work environment can create grounds for retaliation.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been deemed for litigation

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-23
Brief of respondent Teleperformance in opposition filed.
2021-05-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 23, 2021)

Attorneys

Tammy H. Hepburn
Tammy H. Hepburn — Petitioner
Teleperformance
Thom K. CopeMesch Clark Rothschild, Respondent