| 25-6273 |
Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination stray-remarks summary-judgment supervisor-bias |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's rigid, four-part test for dismissing discriminatory remarks as legally irrelevant "stray remarks" unless made by a final d… |
| 25-33 |
Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation |
1. Whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts that establish a prima facie case of discrimination?
2. Wh… |
| 24-546 |
Karin Weng v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comparator-evidence disciplinary-charges due-process employment-discrimination pretext summary-judgment |
This petition presents three questions pertaining to an employment discrimination plaintiff's evidentiary burden in summary judgment proceedings to pr… |
| 23-597 |
Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest |
1. Whether, in the case of an alleged retaliatory arrest in violation of the First Amendment, Nieves v. Bartlett requires a plaintiff to identify othe… |
| 21-138 |
Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim |
A jury returned a verdict for petitioner on her age discrimination and retaliation claims. The district court upheld the verdict, finding that a reaso… |
| 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… |
| 20-5841 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator |
Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-5790 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator |
Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 19-1238 |
Lisa L. Watson v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-action adverse-employment-action agency-action civil-rights comparator comparator-evidence discriminatory-termination due-process employment hipaa-compliance performance-improvement-plan prima-facie-case |
Where is the initial performance upon which grounds the agency fired me for this employer's adverse action after my alleged failure of the so called i… |
| 19-7956 |
Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
First Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review |
1. Did the First Circuit Judge erred and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary … |
| 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… |