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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-713 | Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis | 1) Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?: In the decision below, the Eleventh Circuit appears … |
| 20-6108 | Antoine Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 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… |
| 18-1185 | Charter Communications, Inc. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | GVR | Relisted (5) | 1981 but-for but-for-causation causation civil-rights civil-rights-act editorial-decisions editorial-discretion first-amendment hurley hurley-v-irish-american motivating-factor section-1981 | Twice now in the context of federal anti discrimination laws, this Court has instructed that the rule of but -for causation is the "default rule[]" ag… |