42-usc-1981
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-292 | John L. Roseman, Sr. v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process title-vii | Whether rulings of courts below constitute an infringement of Petitioner's rights under Due Process Clauses of Constitution and related rights under 4… |
| 23-7373 | Giovanni DePalma v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention | Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim through an EMERGENCY PETITION FOR… |
| 23-6455 | Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search | 1) first: 4:99-01.2-BCW; When wasLibfie Federal Government allowed to "open" a [case] against me in 1999, and when was any indictment fitst made publi… |
| 23-487 | Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC | Utah | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure | 1. Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants ' contractual dues is discriminatory? 2. Whether Appellant 's exercise of §92… |
| 23-275 | Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation | Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as th… | |
| 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 | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e2 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national ori… | |
| 22-1058 | John L. Roseman, Sr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-pleadings standing sua-sponte | Whether motion-initiated "sua sponte " dismissal of courts below in this case was proper, and in keeping with the fairness standards required by this … |
| 22-960 | Christen Robinson Kelley v. Catherine Howden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights discrimination mixed-motive retaliation summary-judgment title-vii | 1. Did the District Judge err by granting summary judgment against Ms. Kelley's 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the 14th Amendment? 2. Did the District Judge er… |
| 22-917 | Nayonn Gray v. Autozoners, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights contract contract-services discriminatory-intent material-fact pretext racial-discrimination section-1981 summary-judgment | Whether summary judgment should be granted when there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether a defendant's refusal to provide services requ… |
| 22-832 | Michael A. Caldwell, et al. v. Joseph M. Gasper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director, Michigan State Police, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination diversity-initiative employment employment-discrimination gender-preference protected-activity race-preference title-vii | Whether opposition to an employer's "Diversity Initiative" (non-remedial race and gender preferences) constitutes protected activity under 42 USC § 19… |
| 22-5965 | Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. | Texas | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause | Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a (Rule 91a) Dismissal of Baseless Cause of Action, became effective March 1, 2013, and suppose to be similar to Feder… |
| 21-1385 | Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis in employment … |
| 21-894 | Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. | New York | 2021-12-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death | 1. Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, namely, Judge Marsha L. Steinhardt, erred and abused its/her discretion by dismissing Petiti… | |
| 21-5443 | Rachel Crook v. Shea Fiduciary Services, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office pro-se-litigation treason | 1. If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution pr… |
| 21-5442 | Jasper Crook v. Robin Shea | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation-claim equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation treason-allegation | 1. If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution pr… |
| 21-5374 | Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination | I. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 can Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch manage deny Plaintiff "access to servicing her federal home becaus… |
| 20-1622 | Ramonica M. Luke v. University Health Services, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 admissible-evidence civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-evidence employment-discrimination honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext-analysis similarly-situated title-vii | 1. Applicable to the Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 or 42 U.S.C, 1981, did Plaintiff prove pretext by discrimination by showing "weakness, impl… |
| 20-1101 | Taniesheia Harden v. Comcast Corporation | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C.-§-1981 42-usc-1981 burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-establishment court-of-appeals pleading-standard summary-judgment unsettled-law | Is the grant of summary judgment proper when the movant does not meet its burden? |
| 20-5697 | Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith | Tennessee | 2020-09-15 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard | Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal … |
| 19-1295 | Rao S. Mandalapu v. Temple University Hospital, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination pretext reeves-v-sanderson retaliation summary-judgment title-vii | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2-3) and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981) prevent discrimination and reta… |
| 19-6630 | Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien | Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981(a) against officials and officers of the court for dismantling RICO laws to the det… |
| 19-6593 | Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination | 1. Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a law suit against the Respondent (s) which w… |
| 19-535 | Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company | Second Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii | Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial discrimination and retaliation claims for a reasonable fact… |
| 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… |
| 19-5520 | Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Dismissed | IFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience | 1. Did the USCA8, err, by not addressing the fundemental issues of civil rights under 42 USC § 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986; Bivens or the Federal… |
| 19-135 | Pamela J. Smith v. University of Maryland, Baltimore, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 1991-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 adverse-employment-action civil-rights employment mcdonongh-v-smith retaliation statute-of-limitations | 1) Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in McDonough v. Smith, 588 US __(2019) and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, retaliation claims under… |
| 19-5359 | Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act | QUESTION(S) PRESENTED FOR THE COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES 1- Defendants who have known about petitioner 's disabilities status, but he or she intentional… |
| 18-1171 | Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (4) | 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing | 1. Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation? 2. Can a plaintiff state a plausible claim fo… |
| 18-8290 | Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii | Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 codified as 42 USC 2000e protect the Plaintiffs … |
| 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 | Petitioner filed an early lawsuit for employment discrimination in 2017. The District Court agreed that Petitioner never received the Magistrate order… |