Title-VII

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25-978 Adrianna Kondilis, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Response Waived discovery due-process first-amendment pretext religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the First, Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits are correct that courts must permit discovery when public employees allege the government's st…
25-963 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with…
25-6760 Flomo Tealeh v. David Steiner, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation time-limitation title-vii Whether under Title VII, the time frame for an employee to file employment discrimination claim is 180 days?
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir…
25-823 William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii 1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu…
25-714 Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination 1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others …
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram…
25A624 Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems Second Circuit 2025-11-26 Application employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii (1) whether the Supremacy Clause allows states to bypass Title VII's accommodations requirement; and (2) whether employers can avoid Title VII religio…
25A570 Hien Thi Nguyen v. John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action employment-discrimination pretext protected-activity retaliation title-vii Question not identified.
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous…
25-5966 Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii 1) Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, can employers demand statements of apostasy as well as set restrictions on how an employee can c…
25-5929 Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o…
25-486 David Perez v. City and County of Denver, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies due-diligence eeoc-complaint fraud-of-court pro-se-litigation title-vii On June 3, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the precondition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requiring employees to file a charge with …
25-471 Tami M. Dixon v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act covid-testing disability-discrimination rehabilitation-act title-vii unvaccinated-status 1. Whether an employer's requirement that an employee undergo COVID-19 testing, based solely on the employee's unvaccinated status, constitutes rega…
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc. in the underlying claims…
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…
25A271 Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete burden-shifting civil-rights employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment title-vii Question not identified.
25-261 Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO Ninth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether a labor organization violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refuses to pursue grievances based on religious objection…
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth…
25-191 James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii Whether the opinion of the court of appeals below disregarding evidence of the background circumstances of the employer's bias against male employees …
25-5323 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. Office of the South Carolina Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination employment-opportunities pro-se-petition title-vii I. Is a Charge filed with U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission required to bring a lawsuit in federal court against an employer(s). II. Is it lawfu…
25A142 Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25-126 Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary religious-accommodation scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whet…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii "Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P…
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii 1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term…
25-47 Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii A. Did the courts below properly apply SCDOT zero tolerance harassment policies. Title VII , EPA, ADE A, ADA, EEOC harassment & hostile work environme…
25A25 Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii 1) the definition and scope of religious belief under Title VI when religious belief and secular beliefs are intertwined and 2) the role of the judici…
24A1295 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii Question not identified.
24-7464 Shukeitha Jackson v. AbbVie, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process mental-illness pro-se-litigant title-vii I. Whether a pro se litigant with documented severe mental illness is entitled to appointed counsel in a civil rights employment matter under Title V…
24A1207 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii Question not identified.
24-1239 Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an "employee" within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)?
24-1237 Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discover…
24-7284 Charles L. Burgett v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether the lower courts applied the correct summary judgment standard of review for prima facie and for pretext in assessing a case of employment dis…
24A1096 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii Question not identified.
24-7098 Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "significan…
24-1049 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection rule-59e summary-judgment title-vii Question 1. Should a plaintiffs response to the motion to dismiss be converted to a summary motion when some of the evidence are "the matters outside …
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
24-6869 Evelyn Thomas v. Quicktrip Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied IFP civil-rights colorism-discrimination eeoc-procedure judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice title-vii The issue before the court concerns Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, specifically discrimination as outlined in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, which incl…
24-1015 John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may se…
24-996 Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits an employer from discharging an individual "because of such individual's . . . religion.…
24-931 Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Sixth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship 1. Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not b…
24-896 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii 1. Can a complaint allege direct violation of Title VII? 2. Should the case go back to the district court to discover the hiring information the empl…
24-895 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss prima-facie-case title-vii 1. Should the evidence attached to the response to the motion to dismiss be declined? 2. Does the complaint meet the standard "state a claim to relie…
24-890 Richard Lee Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court, et al. Arizona 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights evidence-standard ex-parte-injunction labor-dispute title-vii workplace-rights 1. Does the legal standard of evidence require a showing of imminent harm to justify the issuance of an ex parte injunction without notice? 2. Are…
24-852 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata section-1983 title-vii workplace-discrimination The Panel required petitioner to include within his § 1983 complaint for racial discrimination against School Board members individually his separate …
24-811 Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education Sixth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Can facts be removed from a summary motion under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? 2. Did the three judges of the instant case and …
24-6413 La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation 1.) Does the Americans with Disabilities Act/federal law, prohibit and makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate and/or retaliate against an …
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun…
24-733 Daniel Snyder v. Arconic, Corp., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived abercrombie-standard accommodation employment-law prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii Whether an employee's sincere religious belief or practice, without more, establishes a prima facie case under Abercrombie.
24A586 Alan Rodemaker v. City of Valdosta Board of Education, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete cause-of-action civil-rights claim-preclusion res-judicata school-board title-vii Question not identified.
24-640 Patricia A. Allen v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2024-12-12 Denied Response Waived causation-standard due-process employment-discrimination jury-instructions retaliation-claim title-vii Whether, in a Title VII lawsuit, mixed Title VII claims, where causation evidence and facts supports the employee's Retaliatory Hostile Work Environme…
24-603 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit committed error when it affirmed the district court's acceptance of DEA's Notice of Discovery Compliance including a decl…
24-6037 Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii • Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination and hostile work environment where the …
24-427 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (10)Relisted (5) burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii 1. Whether this Court should overrule McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973). 2. Whether step three of the McDonnell Douglas burden-sh…
24-5742 Jasmine Oliver v. Amazon.com Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP employer-liability reasonable-accommodation retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-discrimination Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, U.S.C. 2000e Et Seq., outlines an employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created …
24A331 Patricia A. Allen v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete discriminatory-animus job-assignment jury-instructions material-adversity supreme-court-precedent title-vii 1. Whether Allen retains a constitutional right, under the 5th amendment to the Bill of Rights, to due process and equal protection of the law, to jur…
24-359 Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourtee…
24-5491 Phile Andra Watson v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action causation employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation title-vii 1. Whether Title VII's retaliation provision and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that an employer woul…
24-5422 MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied IFP employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance "For the purpose of Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, does a state employer's refusal to take a required step for the hiring of a person beca…
24-5390 Paulina Buhagiar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada employment-discrimination intentional-emotional-distress ninth-circuit summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Wells Fargo on Buhagiar's claims of discrim…
24A145 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete bostock-standard but-for-causation mcdonnell-douglas-framework religious-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. This case raises an important issue regarding the summary judgment standard in Title VII actions after Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 590 U.S.…
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 Why was the Petitioner not given her position back when she was exonerated and has sworn testimony that has proved that there was no racial discrimina…
24-67 Tammie L. Terrell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination-in-employment-act burden-of-proof but-for-causation causation differential-treatment employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-action retaliation title-vii 1. Whether differential treatment must contribute to the ultimate decision. 2. Whether the burden shifts to the defendant to establish it would have …
24A54 The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago v. Janay E. Garrick Seventh Circuit 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete church-autonomy employment-discrimination first-amendment judicial-interference religious-liberty title-vii Question not identified.
24-48 Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship Title VII makes it an unlawful "for an employer . . . to fail or refuse to hire . . . any individual . . . because of such individual's . . . religion…
24-10 Marecia Bell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-2000e-16 employment-law federal-employment pay-discrimination protected-class summary-judgment title-vii title-vii-discrimination 1. Whether a failure to follow federal rules relating to pay without credible explanation that results in a protected class receiving less pay than ot…
23-1346 The Golub Corporation v. Elaine Bart Second Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mixed-motive pretext summary-judgment title-vii 1. Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to mixed motive discrimination cases, and if so, how are the three stages of that framework to be for…
23-1347 Fang Zeng v. Mingan Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-procedure 23-1346" default-judgment default-judgments due-process employment-discrimination foreign-defendant foreign-defendants Is the McDonnell Douglas framework applicable to m mixed-motive personal-jurisdiction pretext service-of-process substituted-service summary-judgment title-vii In these federal cases Plaintiffs could not locate Defendant in California for personal service of process, because at all times Defendant was a res…
23-7667 Renee Chrustowski v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights diversity employment-discrimination harassment protected-class retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether petitioner was treated less favorably than the other employees by direct and indirect discriminatory reasons. 2. Whether petitioner was te…
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment In Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), this Court held that under Ti…
23-1235 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice v. Lawanna Tynes Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied circumstantial-evidence comparator-analysis convincing-mosaic employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the prima facie case and comparator analysis set forth in this Court's decision in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) and i…
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation The United States District Court Western District of Arkansas and the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, refused to hear Denise Johnson'…
23-1152 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether if I didn't give consent for my case to be conducted by the magistrate Judge Kelly Pate. Rule 73. 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). A record must be made of…
23-1119 Loredana Ranza v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied adea administrative-agency civil-rights claim-preclusion discrimination extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens title-vii 1. Does claim preclusion bar an expatriate U.S. citizen from bringing discrimination claims under the extraterritorial provisions of Title VII of the …
23-1039 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show "background circumstances to support the suspic…
23-1031 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work environment case and eliminate from considerat…
23-1019 Dennis McLain v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response Waived causation-standard civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee federal-employment jury-instruction retaliation title-vii whistleblowing 1. Whether, when instructing a jury on causation in a federal employee Title VII claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16(a) it is error to fail to instruct t…
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Question not identified.
23-891 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii Title VII, the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and the Equal Protection Clause, inter alia, prohibit 1) disparate treatment/wages based on gender and/or race; 2) …
23A744 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Presumed Complete academic-proceedings civil-rights employment-discrimination tenth-circuit title-vii university-liability Question not identified.
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 1. Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows…
23-837 Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace 1. Are employer statements on religious dis crimination that are included in the complaint and admitted in the answer binding judicial admissions in …
23-6528 Charles L. Burgett v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-2000e civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discrimi…
23-765 Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs At the time of Petitioner's application for employment with the defendant institution, it was the policy of Veterans Affairs to require the following …
23A647 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct Question not identified.
23-730 Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. New York 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii 1. Does Federal Law pre-empt New York 's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral …
23-728 Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities Under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, an employer who discriminates on compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of race, r…
23-6416 Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii 1. Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and f…
23-6391 Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection 1. Are minority males who oppose discrimination and illegal activity in good-faith and terminated without cause entitled to Equal Protection ? If so,…
23-6321 Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re…
23-6324 Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. Virginia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 title-vii Did the Virginia (Defe ndant 's) violated the requirements of the U.S. Constitution under the Americans with Disabilities, Title VII, 1964,1990. And, …
23A468 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act judicial-impartiality procedural-due-process race-retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Is it a violation of substantial rights under procedural due process of law when a district judge at the pretrial stage and subsequent circuit judg…
23-561 Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity The Equal Pay Act ("EPA") prohibits an employer from "discriminat[ing] … between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such es…
23-6009 Mario Austin v. American Building Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii Do employers violate the Civil Rights Act in retaliation and national origin discrimination when they treat employees less favorably based on retaliat…
23-256 Suleiman Abdu Ibrahim v. Department of the Interior Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-employee-rights federal-employees summary-judgment title-vii Federal employees ' rights are determined under statues which require that 'all personnel actions effecting employees or applicants for employment. …
23-249 Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii 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 Ti…
23-5595 Ronnie R. Rolland, Sr. v. Aurora Retirement, LLC, dba Cherry Creek Retirement Village, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process protected-activity punitive-damages standing summary-judgment title-vii QUESTION ONE: WHETHER AN APPEALS COURT MAY CONSTITUTIONALLY IN ERROR RETAIN AUTHORITY OVER SUMMARY JUDGMENT ACTIONS THAT INCLUDES MOOT EXCLUDED HEARS…
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Question not identified.
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh…
23-128 Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether the States, in private suits involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their El…
23A58 Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii Question not identified.
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 (01). Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally and knowingly discriminate against an employee based on his/her race, national origin, gender, and…
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…
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii I. Whether the Petitioner has a claim pursuant to Title VII 42 U.S.C. § 2000e -2(a)(1) when he was terminated on the basis of his sexual orientation .…
22-1122 Virgil M. Lorenzo v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Ninth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response Waived communicative-competence discrimination litigation-barrier national-origin objective-evidence subjective-judgment subjective-judgments title-vii In Title VII cases alleging discrimination based on national origin, does the reliance of federal courts on subjective judgments concerning the commun…
22-1092 Onoyom Ukpong v. International Leadership of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied employment-discrimination federal-laws final-pretrial-judgment qualified-immunity section-1981 statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supremacy-clause title-vii 1. Did the Fifth Circuit deviate from paramountcy of Supremacy Clause, federal laws and this Court's on-the merits-based final pretrial judgment prece…
22-7448 Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some…
22-975 Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii I. Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex… constitutes prohibited employment discrimination "b…
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether, considering the "cat's paw " employment theory in what circumstances, an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination in viola…
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…
22-931 Paulo K. Mwassa v. Presbyterian Homes & Services Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied but-for-causation but-for-cause civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination federal-sector-employment protected-activity retaliation title-vii 1. Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which provides that actions affecting employees shall be made fr…
22-923 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-03-22 Denied civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an Order that was unclear with judicial errors that is …
22-892 Guangyu Wang v. Nevada System of Higher Education Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied anti-retaliation anti-retaliation-standard civil-rights decision-making due-process hierarchical-network-processing network-processing retaliation statutory-remedies title-vii How to incorporate a human decision-making and the anti-retaliation standard into a process hierarch network processing model and why it matters to se…
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…
22-6884 Pradheep Chhalliyil v. Foodchain ID Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination evidence evidence-gathering national-origin-discrimination prima-facie-case termination title-vii 1: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l) prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of e…
22-737 Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii The Constitution guarantees that all citizens may enjoy the "free exercise" of the religion of their choice. Am. 1. The Court has recognized that the …
22-627 Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii The following Questions are to provide notice of the grounds Petitioner seeks certiorari and resolve questions of particular importance. 1. Whether p…
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii 1. Is it an important federal question of law for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether U.S. Courts of Appeal should be permitted to issue "NOT P…
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2022-11-15 Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii 1. The word "substantial" is not found in the governing statute, CPLR 5601(a), or the New York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals …
22-406 Rafael Friedrichsen v. Jose Ramon Rodriguez, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-right-to-jury-trial due-process eeoc rehearing title-vii writ-of-mandamus 1. Did the Supreme Court of Texas fail to maintain uniformity in decisions when it denied the Writ of Mandamus regarding whether a timely filing of an…
22-5944 Charles L. Burgett v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Eighth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-2000e employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discrimi…
22-5815 Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii Question 1: Whether in Title VII, Civil Right Act of 1964, prohibition of discrimination based on race, color, and national origin; an employer is de…
22-299 Trisha Doran v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination babb eeoc eeoc-regulations federal-sector federal-sector-claims honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework title-vii In Babb (2020), this Court held that the plain meaning of the statutory language of ADEA's federal-sector provision mandates liability if a decision-m…
22-283 Rachel Mosby v. City of Byron, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived charge-filing charge-filing-requirements civil-rights court-doctrine fort-bend procedural-requirement summary-judgment title-vii waiver (1) Must a trial court apply this Court's holding in Fort Bend when a Title VII plaintiff timely argues that the defendant has waived its objection to…
22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Immediately after beginning his employment with Respondent as a pharmacist in March 2015, Petitioner became the direct object of his Caucasian coworke…
22-231 Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms," "conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "signific…
22-193 Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-31 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer …
22-174 Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Third Circuit 2022-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (57)Relisted (2) civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship 1. Whether this Court should disapprove the more-than-de-minimis-cost test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations stated in Trans World Airli…
22-165 Samuel M. Howard v. Office of the Special Deputy Receiver, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-filing employment judicial-discretion standing title-vii 1. Whether the District Court and Magistrate Judge did not consider all of the brief, filing, company witnesses, and business location and area. And m…
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers retaliation by employers against employees. The second question is: Did Morni…
21-8061 Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino Sixth Circuit 2022-06-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii In a Title VII action between an indigent pro se complainant and private sector employer, who, if anyone, has the responsibility of informing the comp…
21-1523 Wendell Tabb v. Durham Public Schools Board of Education Fourth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-analysis comparators discrimination eeoc eeoc-charge hishon-v-king-spalding statutory-period title-vii 1. Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandate trial courts exclude comparators who received a benefit discriminatorily doled out as define…
21-7896 Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii Do Article III, Section 2, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution and the First, Fifth an Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution …
21-7851 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury 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 r…
21-1416 Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii After alleging that his immediate supervisor, the President of his Catholic high school, invoked racist stereotypes against Black people and other per…
21-1301 Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation 1. Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment and the employee's failure to cease making such complaints when …
21-7399 Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit…
21-1112 Sonya Gorbea v. Verizon New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied ada constructive-termination employment-discrimination job-abandonment pretext ptsd reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations title-vii 1. How can Verizon dereliction of duty and reckless disregard for the necessary medical treatment be acceptable under the ADA/Title VII in much as not…
21-6842 Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii The Supreme Court has recognized in a variety of contexts that the judiciary's legitimacy and efficacy derives largely from the public's confidence in…
21-967 Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se litigant who filed his case under Title VII EEOC adminis…
21-6690 Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii 1. Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Cor…
21-843 Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii (1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua…
21-6484 Thomas Lee Battle v. California California 2021-12-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii 1. Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prose…
21-787 Gina Russomanno v. Dan Dugan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claims due-process material-fact new-evidence res-judicata same-claim-preclusion standing title-vii 1. Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, pursuant to res judicata, b…
21-6400 Sonya R. Edwards v. Mesquite Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination procedural-waiver statute-of-limitations title-vii (1) In light of the Supreme Court's holdings that an EEOC intake questionnaire may constitute a charge and a charge may be verified after the filing p…
21-744 William Maner v. Dignity Health, fka Catholic Healthcare West Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied civil-rights employment employment-law favoritism gender-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii workplace-favoritism 1. ) Where an employer allows workplace activities of ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of favoritism to occur, such as job hiring, 'job reten…
21-733 Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii The question presented which has caused a split in the Circuit Courts of Appeal application of the law pertaining to Retaliation cases under Title VII…
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More…
21-561 Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.), in which there is no direct evidence of discrimination, must th…
21-522 Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii Whether, or under what circumstances, a claim that an employer unlawfully retaliated against an employee for filing a charge of discrimination with th…
21-5824 Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity If an employee/plaintiff is a member of a racial majority (white female) is she legally considered to be viewed as an unprotected class, stated below,…
21-5716 Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens Second Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by not affording the Petitioner leave to amend her complaint and instead granted the Re…
21-5643 Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii In Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress generally prohibited private employers from discriminating against an individual "because of su…
21-361 Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii 1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba…
21-368 Guy Patterson v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived non-discriminatory reason for an employment actio agency-employment-practices babb-v-wilkie civil-rights due-process federal-discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination job-related-tests non-discriminatory-reason professional-ability-standards title-vii Under the "stricter standard" applicable to the Federal Government, does an executive agency articulate a "legitimate, non-discriminatory reason" for …
21-359 Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive that the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonne…
21-135 Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii 1. Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe ("Monroe") to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable estoppel can only arise…
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 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 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 emp…
21-90 Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether under the 14th amendment and in addition to title 7 and 42 U.S.C.§200e-16(a) (race, color, religion, sex or national origin) a claim on, an…
21-74 Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii 1. Whether the six factors set forth in Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003), addressing whether director-shareho…
21-5056 Arthur Vincent v. AutoZone Fourth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discipline eeoc employment-discrimination harassment job-assignment retaliation title-vii workplace-harassment AutoZone, Defendant, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. AutoZone negligently violated EEOC Laws Under Civil Rights Act of 1964, in r…
21-9 Vincenza Presti v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination federal-employment retaliation title-vii workplace-discrimination workplace-retaliation 1. Whether the Judicial system can be biased towards federal employee petitioners by denying them due process and a hearing? 2. Whether Title VII ban…
20-8473 Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii The EEO, and Title VII Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employee to discriminate against any employee or applicant, regardless of race, color, age…
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 Due to his intellectual disabilities, Jeffrey Liberto was banned from his volunteering position at Geisinger Hospital, without explanation, and preve…
20-1716 Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii Constitutional Question is the Governors Code of Conduct constitutional? 16AM Juris. 2nd Ed.Const. Law. Sect. 177 Declaratory Judgement Act Commonweal…
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action brought by the United States against the State of …
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…
20-8015 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii 1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A PRIMA …
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii I. Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII (42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16(a)), which provides in pertinent part that "All personnel actions affecting…
20-1533 Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2021-05-04 Denied civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii 1. Should Plaintiff Curry been given and Opportunity for Reemployment as other similarly situated employees upon retirement excluding the fact that sh…
20-1373 Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl…
20-1330 June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii 1) Seven (7) government agencies failed in applying Title VII mandates as outlined in our United States Constitution; Was this a coordinated effort …
20-1257 Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii It is well understood that plaintiffs can and should, for strategic reasons, bring claims under every theory of liability that may apply to a defendan…
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Federal law strictly prohibits false declaration and misleading conduct in Court against Rehabilitation Act binding in potential Agency that discharge…
20-7289 Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii 1. Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the fact…
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does "shall be made free from any discrimination " prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor? Does Title…
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc in the underlying claims …
20-7116 Isabel Del Pino Allen v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College Florida 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeo eeoc-compliance employment-discrimination employment-termination public-institution tenure tenured-professor title-vii Whether Title VII and other Civil Rights and EEO-related federal decrees can be invoked by a publicly-funded college in an effort to "jump-start" a pr…
20-999 Lloyd Industries, Inc. v. Ronald Watson Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process free-speech punitive-damages ratio ratio-analysis reprehensibility title-vii Should this Court grant a Writ of Certiorari: 1. to correct a pervasive error by many lower courts, including the Third Circuit in this case, which h…
20-1004 Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment 1. Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a trier of f…
20-6907 Dashon Hines v. TopShelf Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-employment standing title-vii Did Khe Manage men 4 Top Shelf petition to right vidlate the Petitioner's without govern ment for p0 qrievances redvess the fear of punishment C repvi…
20-957 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII, when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, disclose their bi…
20-950 H. Renee James v. City of Montgomery, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied but-for-causation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech mcdonnell-douglas retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the court deprives a plaintiff of her First Amendment right to free speech and expression when, in applying the McDonnell Douglas framework…
20-6790 Mona Mustafa v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP baseless-litigation civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination harassment human-rights-act illinois-human-rights-act litigation-retaliation retaliation retaliatory-harassment title-vii 1. Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for that individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is …
20-6627 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process employment-workforce equal-protection institutional-racism systemic-racism title-vii The United States of America in 1964 decided that it is was unlawful to discriminate against another human being because of color of their skin by den…
20-813 James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests 1. Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a "person aggrieved" for purposes of Title VII only …
20-780 Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii 1. Does the "participation" clause contained in Section 704(a) of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protect an employee who has filed an EEOC Com…
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii 1. Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se compla…
20-6174 Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied IFP ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii 1. Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41? 2. Whether the Appeals ju…
20-495 Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship 1. Whether, and under what circumstances, claims arising under federal statute are subject to the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement. 2. Whether…
20-407 Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii 1) Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim where the particular discriminatory practice had been …
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii 1. The circuit courts of appeals split on the issue of jurisdiction regarding breach of settlement agreement resolving discrimination charge under Tit…
20-5581 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-09-03 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-dismissal civil-rights court-of-federal-claims due-process filing-fee indigent indigent-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing title-vii 1) Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII Plaintiff to pay a filing fee at the time when the Plaintiff doesn 't have money …
20-275 Barrington Boyd v. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived blacklisting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination expungement financial-services FINRA finra-form-u5 regulatory-action title-vii Is it a matter of national interest and importance that large financial services employers should not be able to skate around discrimination laws, EEO…
20-213 Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii 1. Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against em ployment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encomp…
20-58 Anita Smith v. Vestavia Hills Board of Education Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied but-for-causation causation causation-standard civil-rights discrimination-claim motivating-factor pleading summary-judgment title-vii Nearly thirty years ago, Congress replaced Title VII's but-for causation standard with the "more forgiving" motivating factor standard. Bostock v. Cla…
20-56 Wen Chiann Yeh v. North Carolina State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination faragher-ellerth faragher-ellerth-rule supervisor-liability title-vii Weather, as the Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits have held, the Faragher and Ellerth "supervisor" liability rule (i) applies to discrimination, hara…
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Assuming the other elements of a Title VII claim are present, is sexual harassment (1) unlawful if a reasonable person would conclude, in light of all…
20-5102 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia 2020-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte…
20-5103 Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner Fourth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte…
20-19 Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-07-14 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military?
20-16 Edward Wayne Binns v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-complaint equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances res-judicata standing title-vii WHETHER AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION COMPLAINT FILING, IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WOULD BE TIMELY FILED FOR A TITLE 7 ACTION, U…
19-1461 Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (13) civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an "undue hardship" under Title VII, 42 …
19-1388 Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Sixth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an "undue hardship" in accommodating an emp…
19-8520 Justin Mohn v. Progressive Insurance Tenth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination pretext-plus pretext-plus-rule prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii (1) Whether the District Court and Tenth Circuit erred in holding that a plaintiff establishing a prima facie case and or showing pretext plus proof o…
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…
19-8432 Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California California 2020-05-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices Question not identified.
19-1263 Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v…
19-1121 Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii 1. Is the Fifth Circuit restrictive doctrine "ultimate adverse employment action ", in conflict with the protections and provisions intended by Cong…
19-1109 Timothy C. Yoakum v. Sabre GLBL Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights employment employment-discrimination performance-review summary-judgment title-vii Does the issuance of an undeserved Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and undeserved employee performance review become actionable under Title VII as …
19-1089 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation I. Question: Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other…
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Me FEDERAL COURT IN GREENBELT, MD AND THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT IN RICHMOND VA, DENIED MY STATUTORY RIGHTS ASSERTED UNDER BOTH TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RI…
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii U.S. Supreme Court and every circuit has at one time or another expressed the view that employment discrimination and retaliation cases are poor candi…
19-7686 Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection I. Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VI I42 U.S.C. 2000(e) {Goodman v. Luke…
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection 1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend pr…
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance - When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County? - What County Merit Rules were applied to Ms. Yazzie at the time of her termination? Zero toleranc…
19-981 Todd A. English v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response Waived adea civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process sixth-amendment standing title-vii I. Did the Court(s) err in its discretion in applying the standard for "plausible cause for relief," as it relates to dismissing a claim during pretri…
19-916 Vernon Wendell Risby v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel due-process leosa mandamus retaliation title-vii 1. Is Collateral Estoppel applicable where the prior Mandamus case dealt only with the issue of whether the Agency was obligated under LEOSA to prov…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…
19-724 Keith Y. Arakaki v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii (i) Whether the four discrete events Petitioner raised in opposing Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment constituted adverse actions in accordance …
19-690 Tina Neville v. Janet Dhillon, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) 32-U.S.C.-§-709 civil-rights conflict-of-interest dual-status-technician due-process eeoc EEOC-access feres-doctrine incident-to-service military-civilian-employment military-function national-guard title-vii workplace workplace-discrimination 1. Contrary to Congress' clear intent, does the Feres Doctrine invalidate all remedies under Title VII for workplace discrimination experienced by a d…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
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…
19-500 Ameer Siddiqui v. NetJets Aviation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) but-for but-for-test causation-standard civil-rights comparator-analysis comparators employment-discrimination pretext pretext-evaluation reasonable-inference retaliation retaliation-claims section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii 1. Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under either Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the strenuous "but for" test, or is a reasonable in…
19-6291 Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Firm, LLP District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment title-vii tortious-interference 1. Whether District of Columbia court of Appeals can ignore instances of retaliation under Title VII and other serious violations in dismissing a cas…
19-6242 Imanol Pineda Penaloza v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination question-not-identified racial-discrimination reasonable-person title-vii Whether sentencing enhancements that are not found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Sixth Amendment, and whether the advisory nature of…
19-446 VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6) charge-of-discrimination discrimination-charge eeoc employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission investigation investigative-authority private-litigation right-to-sue title-vii 1. Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission …
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii 1. When, if ever, can a magistrate judge assigned to handle nondispositive matters in a Federal lawsuit intentionally violate Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
19-269 Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim - here, that defendant Entergy retaliated against …
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…
19-233 Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii The two questions presented are: 1. Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of…
19-5621 David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii 1. Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation …
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment An estimated 10 million or 4% of US internet users have been threatened with or experienced the posting of explicit intimate images without their cons…
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii 1. Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial? 2. Does general corporate know…
19-5517 Eric Alan Sanders v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 eeoc eeoc-charge pleading-amendment pleadings right-to-sue rule-15 rule-15(d) title-vii Whether an aggrieved person, under Title VII or the ADA, can amend a complaint under Rule 15; or supplement his/her complaint under Rule 15(d), after …
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Under Title VII Civil Rights Act 1964 42 U.S.C. 1981-1991 1. AS a citizen of United states does the civil rights act of 1964 gives me the right to f…
19-5192 Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii Is a plaintiffs prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonabl…
19-83 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. District of Columbia 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii 1. How does the framework and prima facie prongs of the Supreme Court's precedent setting employment case, McDonnell Douglas vs. Green, apply in a Tit…
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…
19-5119 Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii 1. In a case brought under the Title VII Discrimination in Employment Act, Age Discrimination as illegal termination & harassment with police miscon…
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f…
18-1580 Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California, initiated with a request for a preliminary injunction during the pendency of …
18-9663 In Re Lorcan Kilroy 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii 1. Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in regard to it's current application to §504 protected …
18-9622 Essie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination personnel-practices retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the Summary judgment in McDaniel's retaliation claim was proper because District Court Judge Dorsey stated that McDaniel failed to raise a …
18-9593 Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no…
18A1236 Jacquelyn Johnson v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete employment-fairness equal-pay gender-bias racial-discrimination title-vii workplace-discrimination Question not identified.
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Plaintiff asserts the continuing violation exception to the Title VII limitation period. If a Title VII plaintiff files an EEOC charge that is timely …
18-9410 Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims…
18-9373 David Shu v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claim due-process jury-trial-right pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal standing title-vii "Whether it's proper that a Title VII of the Civil Rights Act discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen whose native language is not English …
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors The central question presented in this case is whether a false rumor, alleged to have originated out of jealousy, that a female employee received a pr…
18-1426 Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination 1. Has the McDonnell Douglas framework for determining workplace discrimination been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied …
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel that failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order necessarily violate procedural due process rights of t…
18-1398 Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. District of Columbia 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings brown-v-gen-services-adm brown-vs-board chandler-v-roudebush civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claims due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-act federal-sector-employee title-vii trial-de-novo Upon exhaustion of the administrative proceedings, did 42 U.S.C. §2000e-16(c) provide Anica Ashbourne with an unconditional right to a trial de novo o…
18-1401 David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
18-1391 N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it held that the Plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York …
18-9077 Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom…
18-8878 Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give to rise to a new claim? Storey, 347 F.3d 383. See eBay INC .v MercExchange. …
18-1161 Regena Bryant v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii This case is a Non-Mixed Motive and Non-Pretext Title VII employment discrimination suit. The exclusive focus in this case is the sort of showing a Ti…
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 …
18-1058 Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii 1. When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jur…
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment An EEOC Complaint should not be "strictly interpreted" due process of law should be administered for evidence to be given to the court; contradictions…
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii (1) Whether, after this U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138, S. Ct. 42 (2017), the jurisdiction-lacking district …
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se party in federal sector employment discrimination litiga…
18-942 Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Relisted (5) adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer Whether it is a "materially adverse action" under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re…
18-928 Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii 1. Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims. 2. Whether state law (as opposed to federal common law) det…
18-882 Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) but-for-causation causation civil-rights discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination personnel-actions retaliation statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether "shall be made free from any discrimination" permits federal-sector personnel actions that are not made free from any discrimination or retali…
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim in this cause have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2. [Sect…
18-6955 Guy W. Harrison, III v. Fulton County, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-ruling summary-judgement summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury Whether the lower courts have the authority to grant Summary Judgement when the EEOC has ruled that the Plaintiff rights were violated under Title VII…
18-6823 James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii Was the Plaintiff, under The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the Constitution, and The Fair Employment and Housing Act and The Civil Rights Ac…
18-662 Mary McDonald v. City of Wichita, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived adverse-action but-for-causation but-for-cause employment-discrimination jury-instruction jury-instructions predominant-cause retaliation sole-cause sole-cause-standard standard-of-proof title-vii The plaintiff in a Title VII retaliation case must "establish that his or her protected activity was a but for cause of the alleged adverse action by …
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…
18-624 Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services Second Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii I. Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII, when: There are DIRECT EVIDENCES of discrimination, including the evidence of PRE…
18-6644 Jingyuan Feng v. Sheena Komenda, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination employment-discrimination,civil-rights,title-vii,p equal-employment performance-evaluation pretext retaliation title-vii Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions. Whether exceptionally placin…
18-6517 Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii Question not identified.
18-6501 Carl A. Robertson v. Interactive College of Technology, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-theory civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidentiary-rules mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext pro-se pro-se-litigant scheduling-order standing summary-judgment title-vii Based on the Supreme Court of the United States precedents: Should a 'pro se litigant's" [or any litigant's] First Proposed "Heightened" Amended Com…
18-533 Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the "higher management" standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley…
18-525 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis Fifth Circuit 2018-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit, as three Circuits have held, or a waivable claimpr…
18-6321 Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that an employer would n…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e…
18-5981 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights New York 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii Should the Supreme Court have transferred the Article 78 to the Appellate Division without a hearing? Should the lower court have denied full discove…
18-245 Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii Since Hosanna-Tabor did not address how to decide if an employer is "religious," should the Court review this case and define the proper analysis in d…
18-197 E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii Congress gave the Courts inherent powers to curtail vexatious litigants' abuse of the Court system by allowing the Courts to enact pre-filing orders b…
18-159 Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o…
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (14) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender 1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and in…
18-94 Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discrimina…
18-5196 Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether any of the district court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of discretion requiring reversal of a judgement. Whether …
18-5180 Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or …
18-9 Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation WHETHER THIS COURT MUST APPLY STRICT SCRUTINY IN REVIEWING THE LOWER COURTS' DECISIONS AFTER DEVIATING FROM APPLICABLE CASE AND STATUTORY LAW AND DISM…