direct-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the def…
23-6356 Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama Alabama 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge Question not identified.
23-550 Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied age-discrimination direct-evidence employment-law fourth-circuit-standard mcdonnell-douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case summary-judgment 1. Whether (1) a statement by a university dean, made during the time that the university was deciding whether or not to renew the contract of a th…
23-5680 Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any …
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment 1. What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability? 2. Is it a reasonable accommodation to mod…
18-8566 John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review WHETHER MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF CIRCUMSTAINTZAL Question not identified.
18-1089 Annette Benjamin v. Felder Services, L.L.C., dba Oxford Health and Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights direct-evidence disparate-treatment employment-act employment-discrimination employment-law poor-performance pretext summary-judgment workplace-discrimination In a case brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, where a long-term, older employee is displaced by a younger employee, may a court pr…
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…
18-176 Conestoga Trust Services, LLC, as Trustee of the Conestoga Settlement Trust, dated May 1, 2010 v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Sixth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure direct-evidence disinterested-witness evidence judicial-discretion material-fact material-facts nonmovant reasonable-jury reasonable-jury-standard summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether a court considering a motion for summary judgment may, under the guise of applying the "reasonable jury" standard, weigh and discredit direct …