1. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts
with relevant decisions of this Court, by sanctioning a summary judgment
that was granted without a trial, where there are facts material to the
case that were in genuine dispute.

2. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
violates petitioner 's Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury.

3. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
properly dismissed petitioner 's employment discrimination and
retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., where petitioner has provided copious
evidence of facts.

4. Whether Title Vll's retaliation provision and similarly worded
statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that
an employer would not have taken an adverse employment
action but for an improper motive), or instead require only
proof that the employer had a mixed motive (i.e., that an
improper motive was one of multiple reasons for the
employment action).

Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court, by sanctioning a summary judgment that was granted without a trial, where there are facts material to the case that were in genuine dispute