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25A765 Karen L. MacElroy Zopatti v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Denied ada disability-rights due-process judicial-access reasonable-accommodation title-ii Whether the state trial court violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II by denying reasonable accommodations and effective communica…
24-7263 Yhanka Veras v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights disabilities-act motion-practice rule-12b6 twiqbal Whether the American With Disabilities Act (ADA) affords a litigant, such as Yhanka Veras, an accommodated plausibility standard under Twiqbal, for Ru…
24A751 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
24A210 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-discrimination medical-school professional-education reasonable-modification Question not identified.
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…
24-5135 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment ada ada-violation cares-act constitutional-violation due-process federal-cares-act federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict The issue here is jurisdictional and that the state matter should be heard in Federal court for the reasons detailed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for th…
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination 1. The first question presented is which court could have jurisdiction in improving laws keeping an employee from being terminated for having reported…
24A35 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-access legal-resources meaningful-access medical-impairment prison-conditions Question not identified.
23A1109 LuzMaria Arroyo v. Volvo Group North America, LLC dba Volvo Parts North America Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete ada disability-standards employment-discrimination military-service reasonable-accommodation userra Question not identified.
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that the 11th Amendment precluded Petitioners' retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23A1050 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-rights medical-testing ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
23-7320 Darrin Espinosa v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights employment-discrimination essential-functions job-performance reasonable-accommodation termination termination-of-employment workers-compensation 1. DOES A DISABLED PERSON HAVE THE RIGHT TO PERFORM A JOB EVEN THOUGH HE DOES NOT NEED ACCOMOCATIONS TO PERFORM ALL ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB? 2…
23-7017 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-protections disability disability-rights due-process fair-play judicial-discrimination legal-access self-represented systemic-bias 1. Do state and federal jurisprudence systemically eliminate rights and access to legal remedies for self-represented disabled litigants with invisibl…
23A715 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete ada disability-discrimination employment-discrimination municipal-liability reasonable-accommodation wrongful-termination Question not identified.
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation? Does an employer violate the AD…
23-742 Milan Kiser, et al. v. Chris Langer Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights concrete-injury public-accommodation separation-of-powers standing tester-standing On March 27, 2023, this Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the case, Acheson Hotels, L…
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, …
23-362 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination equal-access essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation Is the ADA requirement of reasonable accommodation of employees with disabilities limited to —accommodations that enable an employee to perform the es…
23-264 Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee This is a crucial matter involving the rights of disabled, union employees to receive reasonable accommodation that has not yet been, but should be, d…
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied IFP ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law 1. Can a state agency inflict an unemployment determination that contravenes the Federal Amendment's, with bisWlrli-es /Vef ? 2. Can a state agency a…
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Question not identified.
23-5007 Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 Right to Counsel Preface: IDEA Procedural Safeguards 1415 states: "Any party * shall be accorded the right* to be accompanied and advised by counsel".…
22-1187 Julia Keller-McIntyre v. California California 2023-06-08 Rehearing ada civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-employment protected-status reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Under California laws California State University Executive Code 1096, California Government Code 19230, and California Education Code 87102, and unde…
22-1067 Brian E. Johnson v. Mike Dobbins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process intentional-discrimination prisoner-rights reasonable-accommodation sixth-circuit-court solitary-confinement 1. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding that Title II of the American Disabilities Act ("ADA") requires a prisoner with a known disab…
22-7314 R. J. Kulick v. Brian T. Moynihan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act banking civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-review judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se-status standing 1. 9th Cir. filed on 12-30-22 denying a motion fdr en banc without an expalanation /?hich denied Kulick's right to due process tfhich in turn negates …
22-979 Nicole Owens v. Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived ADA ada-amendments-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination employment-law interactive-process major-life-activities pregnancy-discrimination-act reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act When an employee suffers from a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits her in one or more major life activities, what form must a req…
22-7118 Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation 1.) Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to…
22-692 April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act 1. What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled? Did the Court error in allowing opposing counsel to use derog…
22-638 Mary La Riccia, et vir v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights doctor-patient-relationship employment medical-care medical-communication title-i title-iii 1. Can the restrictions placed on employees under Title I of the ADA be applied to an individual seeking medical care and treatment under Title III? …
22-6279 Alex Duncan v. Jennifer R. Bartone, et al. Ohio 2022-12-09 Denied IFP accessibility ada civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection Question not identified.
22-6236 Michele Gray v. GC Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada age-discrimination civil-rights disability-rights eeoc employment-discrimination harassment social-security wrongful-termination 1. Is [ADEA] - a claim of Age Discrimination in Employment Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 that prohibits employment discrimination against person…
22-429 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Deborah Laufer First Circuit 2022-11-08 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ada ada-tester article-iii-standing civil-rights disability-accessibility disability-rights legal-standing public-accommodation standing website website-accessibility Does a self-appointed Americans with Disabilities Act "tester" have Article III standing to challenge a place of public accommodation's failure to pro…
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority 1. Whether ornot the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh (11th) Circuit Court of Appeals, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judici…
22-5780 James F. Snyder v. Washington Washington 2022-10-06 Denied IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing Question not identified.
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions 1. Whether a law office is subject to the non-dis crimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181…
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act What is the scope of the "extraordinary character" exception to legislative immunity? Does legislative immunity insulate state legislatures and/or le…
21-8136 Dionne K. Thompson v. Morris Heights Health Center, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-discrimination administrative-determination civil-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodations state-court-system A. Is an Entity shielded from a claim when its agents and/or employees have clearly violated a Litigant's rights under the ADA, by refusing to provide…
21-1426 Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals …
21-1384 Florida v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (1) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which grants any "person alleging discrimination" certain "remedies, procedures, and rights,"…
21-7688 Raleigh Rogers v. Wells Fargo Fourth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure class-action due-process individual-notice notice opt-out rule-23 wells-fargo Can the court disregard: one, that Wells Fargo promised to provide the "next steps to be taken regarding [Plaintiff-Appellant's] unauthorized account …
21-1292 S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability Whether a public entity can be vicariously liable under a theory of respondeat superior for its employees' violations of Title II of the Americans wit…
21-7361 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada administrative-procedure disability-accommodation federal-preemption health-care incarceration supremacy-clause title-38 title-38-benefits veterans-rights 1. Whéthér a veteran and his family are entitled to a policy by the Missouri Department of Corrections upholding statutory rights created under Title …
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…
21-1105 Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services Tenth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense 1. In an action against a State under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, is the State immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment when the c…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Am requsting the court to piease review my ada claim I feei the lower courts made some major errors.
21-1018 Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing 1. Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly be a disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendm…
21-1011 Derwin Patten, et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived ADA administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination exhaustion public-entity-discrimination randolph-sheppard-act Rehabilitation-Act state-antidiscrimination-statute 1. Does a federal statute that requires an exhaustion of administrative remedies bar a public entity discrimination claim under the Americans with Dis…
21-6545 Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches Can state actors, and/or government employees violate the equal protection Clause of the 5th Amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA? W…
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada 1. Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's holdings that because of Judge Cowan's judicial immunity, the doctrine of …
21-671 Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation I. Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualifie…
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing a. Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled? b. Can a trustee in a bankruptcy matter use per…
21-6055 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied IFP accommodation ada ada-accommodation civil-rights cognitive-disability due-process execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia prison-rights standing statutory-deadline What is the threshold of evidence required for a cognitively disabled petitioner to establish that his need for accommodation was obvious under the AD…
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act 1. Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled empl…
20-8313 Jason Hunter Bell v. Macy's Corporation Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP ada arbitration-opt-out civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment-dispute justiciability mootness motion-of-default standing 1. The issue is if the "Plaintiff timely Opted out of Arbitration. 1A. Are records/software over 7 years old that are oudated and not currently i can…
20-8301 Daniel J. Heffley v. Kimberly Steele, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability disability-accommodation discrimination discrimination-intent due-process federal-court federal-court-obligations rehabilitation-act 1. Does the Federal court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? 2. Does the failure of t…
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation 1. Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is …
20-7728 Keith Smeaton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel learning-disability plea-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1 - Would a reasonable Jurist find the Appellant Constitutional Rights under e.g. The 1st, 5th, 6ths and 14th Amendments had been denied? 2 - Was the…
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing 1. Should the Supreme Court adopt, as a national standar d, Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc., 631 F.3d 939, 944 (9th Cir. 2011), to balance the n…
20-1357 Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff asserting a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), must show that t…
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-7334 Raymond E. Carr v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights employment perceived-disability record-of-disability rehabilitation-act Question not identified.
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights 1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e…
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), a "disability" is "a physical or mental impairment," 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1)(A), that "substantially l…
20-6999 Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination Whether panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated my Due Process and Equal Justice process and the Equal Protection Clause under the Fo…
20-6650 Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation This is a Title II ADA case violation of Civil Rights. 35.130 (a)No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be exclu…
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia 1. Where Congress conditioned the Americans with Disabilities Act to the states ' receipt of funding under Title IV of the Social Security Act pursuan…
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court 1. Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Co…
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care 1. Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights to provide disable person proper medical care-treatment with medica…
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Question One: Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constit…
19-1476 Vantage Energy Services, Incorporated, et al. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-precedent due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intake-questionnaire iqbal plausibility-standard pleadings statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements verified-charge 1. Whether the combination of an unverified intake questionnaire submitted on behalf of the charging party and an inexcusably dilatory verified charge…
19-8067 Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing 1) whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and menta…
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom 1. Due Process: (a) Whether the City's 1 ½ year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye an…
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
19-549 Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act The question presented is whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scru…
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…
19-406 Marilu F. Touma v. The General Counsel of the Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) abuse-of-power ada ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conspiracy-to-interfere-with-civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction medical-discrimination medical-treatment 1. Whether, UCLA Medical Center violated the America with Disability Act (ADA); Title II of the America with Disability of 1990 (ADA) and Civil Rights…
19-283 City of Trinidad, Colorado v. Stephen Hamer Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) ada ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights public-entities rehabilitation-act repeated-violations repeated-violations-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the repeated violations doctrine extends the statute of limitations for claims under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the R…
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 …
18-9689 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessibility-law ada civil-rights disability-access disability-rights due-process equal-protection federal-buildings public-buildings public-facilities reasonable-accommodation 1. Must State and Federal Buildings be required to provide readily and reasonable access to restroom facilities to those who have a physical disabilit…
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-9644 Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts 1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities? 2)…
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), a federal statute, supersede a Workman's Compensation Act ("WCA"), such as the Pol…
18-9441 Regina Lewis v. Newburgh Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accommodation accommodation-rights ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process housing-authority judicial-improvement-act judicial-procedure notice rehabilitation-act standing Did the Newburgh Housing Authority violate the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 § 112 CAP? Did the Newburgh Housing Authority violate the Americans with Di…
18-9439 Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration Seventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-9229 Matthew DeRyan v. East Valley School District Washington 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-protections ada-rights-violation administrative-investigation civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process false-allegations false-arrest federal-jurisdiction fraud-by-court k-12-classrooms social-security-disability standing wrongful-termination 1 Whether the Lower courts, if in violation of Petitioner's Disability Rights ( disregarding attempts at asserting Federal ADA Rights; denials of moti…
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Denied IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the…
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom? Is a judge allowed to violate the Sunshine Laws by ignoring pub…
18-9039 Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor 1-Petitioner is disabled on both physical and mental. Suppressed on disabled petitioner instead of protected as the American with Disabilities has rec…
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Petitioner Questions the Trial Court's Failure Concerning Post 618, Property of Petitioner's Shoes as Qualified Moving and His Rights to be Handicappe…
18-1292 Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity 1. Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's "fundamental rule of judicial restraint" by failing to address whether Doris Freyre ha…
18-1179 John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal 1. The Americans with Disability Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), 29 U.S.C. §794 require …
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability 1. Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely pe…
18-8211 Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation 1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)? 2) Can a "Strike" be access…
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing There is generally agreement among the courts of appeal that under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act that a non-di…
18-8035 Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case; by a lack of evidence, showing she requested a reasonable accommodat…
18-7865 Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida Florida 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order I humbly request a new trial which will be in accordance with the law. The nature of their order was their final decision finding in favor of Seminole…
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…
18-7584 Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California California 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings Why do injured workers have to suffer needlessly due to lack of care, medication and treatment? Why is a specialist's request for treatment denied be…
18-7368 Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing 1) Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the U…
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…
18-715 Cynthia Carpenter-Barker v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process integration-mandate medical-necessity olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act rule-56-review standard-of-review This case involves a reduction in community-based nursing services that places claimant at risk of institutionalization in violation of Olmstead v. L.…
18-567 Danny Snapp v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied ada ADA-interactive-process ada-reasonable-accommodation burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination employer-burden employment interactive-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment undue-hardship us-airways-v-barnett In 2013 on appeal from a summary judgment dismissing claims for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et. seq…
18-6446 Juliette Fairley v. PM Management - San Antonio AL Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP 5th-circuit ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing civil-rights civil-rights-statute diversity-jurisdiction public-accommodation rule-19 standing 1. Did the 5th Circuit err in finding that Appellant Juliette Fairley failed to state a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 2000a, or 42 U.S.C § 12182, …
18-416 JoAnn Hatch v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived ada burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination non-discriminatory-reason reasonable-accommodation seniority-system summary-judgment 1. On a motion for summary judgment, whether the trial court may disregard or ignore a party's sworn testimony concerning a material historical fact b…
18-393 Aura Moody v. National Football League Second Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURTS DISMISSAL OF THE COMPLAINT AND THE CIRCUIT COURT'S AFFIRMATION OF SAME DEMONSTRATED THE FAILURE OF THE COURTS TO PROPERLY …
18-305 Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of the…
18-5853 Dorothy Binns v. City of Marietta, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the Lower Courts violated any of these or other pertinent Laws, or rules, Overlooked, misapplied, neglected or made any vital legal errors in …
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte I. "The Sixth Circuit is alone in its PLRA interpretation that a sua sponte dismissal for failure to state a claim at screening no longer affords a "f…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing 1) Did the court of appeals decide that a severe physical condition, one that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is not a disability under …
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.…
18-5077 Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act Did the trial court Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously abuse its discretion in dismissing the instant case bought by a multip…