causation-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-750 | Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC | Louisiana | 2025-12-23 | Pending | causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort | Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s… | |
| 25-6212 | Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-499 | Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment | I. To resolve the confusion among circuit courts, the Court should decide whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for analysis at … |
| 25-229 | Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act | In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis… |
| 24-1206 | Daryao Khatri v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2025-05-27 | Denied | age-discrimination causation-standard civil-rights-act eeoc-complaint personnel-actions supreme-court-interpretation | Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (DCCA) and the lower courts erred on two counts: (1) by not considering the Supreme Court ruling of … | |
| 24-998 | Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | causation-standard clearly-established-law first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliatory-force section-1983 | The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of Petitioner Officer Eddie Boyd as to all of Respondent Fred Watson's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims e… |
| 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… |
| 24-5069 | Phile Andra Watson v. FedEx Express | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act but-for-causation causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-law motivating-factor | The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination "on the basis of" disability, but does not specifically set forth the standard to be … |
| 23-1283 | Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation | The Family and Medical Leave Act makes it "unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, … |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 23-5453 | Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted—committing an alien-smuggling offense that resulted in a death—… |
| 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… |
| 22-197 | Yvonne T. Massaro v. New York City Department of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | adea age-discrimination burlington-northern causation causation-standard continuing-violation discrete-acts employment-retaliation hostile-work-environment pattern-and-practice retaliation | Following Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway v. White, this Court held that employers are liable for retaliation under the ADEA for conduct that "… |
| 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… |
| 20-1715 | Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix | 1. The jury was told that for petitioner to prove her claim of retaliation, she must show she was terminated "solely as a consequence" of her protecte… |
| 20-977 | Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response Waived | anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment | Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L… |
| 20-861 | Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor | I. In Burrage U. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), this Court explained that a "but-for" cause is merely one cause, perhaps among several, which is … |
| 20-789 | Rebecca Dikes, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shawn C. Dikes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | causation-standard civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence-presentation federal-tort legal-procedure | 1. Whether a District Court's decision to implement a new causation standard in a federal tort case after the Petitioner presented all her evidence co… |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 19-8158 | Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure | Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa… |
| 19-7936 | James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine | First Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment | Whether the lower courts are correct to apply this Court's decision in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, 133 S. Ct. 2517 (201… |
| 19-1008 | Jim C. Hodge, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | but-for-causation causation causation-standard false-claims-act foreseeability fraud legal-elements proximate-cause substantial-factor | Whether the causation element standard under the False Claims Act is proximate cause, requiring both that the harm was foreseeable and that the false … | |
| 19-995 | Michael J. Murray v. Mayo Clinic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination discrimination motivating-factor statutory-interpretation | The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination "on the basis of" disability, but does not specifically set forth the standard to be … | |
| 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… | |
| 19-500 | 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… |
| 19-5115 | Cordero Robert Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit | I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT… |
| 18-6605 | Joseph Perrone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-proceeding appellate-review burrage-precedent causation causation-standard due-process government-assertions judicial-procedure record standard standard-of-proof united-states-v-burrage | Did the lower courts refuse to follow the decision and 134 S.Ct. 881, 187 L.Ed.2d 715 (2014), and thereby violate fundamental principles of due proces… |
| 18-446 | City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency | First Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit | (1) Do the Clean Water Act and NPDES rules require a "causation" demonstration beyond a "mere possibility" to impose more restrictive effluent limitat… |
| 18-353 | Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response Waived | anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment | Therefore the question presented is whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Responde… |
| 18-5532 | Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, GALINDO JOSE RUIZ-HERNANDEZ, was tried and convicted of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. The District Court adde… |