discriminatory-intent
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1019 | Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | discriminatory-intent mail-in-voting National-Voter-Registration-Act preemption proof-of-citizenship voter-registration | 1. Whether the NVRA or a prior consent decree precludes Arizona from requiring documentary proof of citizenship and residence when applicants use its … | |
| 24-5953 | Ellva Slaughter v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | Whether Duren's "systematic exclusion" prong can be satisfied by proof that a distinctive group has been consistently underrepresented in the jury-sel… |
| 23-6253 | Larry D. Ford v. American Homes 4 Rent, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent due-process fair-housing-act housing housing-providers statutory-interpretation tenant-discrimination tenant-liability third-party-liability | 1. By making it unlawful to discriminate because of a protected trait, did Congress require an FHA plaintiff to plead and prove discriminatory intent … |
| 22-917 | Nayonn Gray v. Autozoners, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights contract contract-services discriminatory-intent material-fact pretext racial-discrimination section-1981 summary-judgment | Whether summary judgment should be granted when there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether a defendant's refusal to provide services requ… |
| 22-779 | Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation | Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discrim inatory intent other than racial bias be actionable un der 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), the possibility o… |
| 22-6484 | Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop | 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis… |
| 22-5988 | Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-5679 | Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona | Arizona | 2022-09-26 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination | Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used i… |
| 21-6348 | Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review | If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c… |
| 21-5926 | Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment | 1. Quotes in the Order (p.6'4-7; p.9-8-13)issued by the Court of Appeal on 5/13/2021 such as "Kunik did not allege any overt discrimination (emphasis … |
| 21-5594 | Daniel J. Heffley v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation discriminatory-intent due-process federal-court-obligation rehabilitation-act | 1. Does the Federal Court have ah obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? 2. Does the lower courts fa… |
| 20-7311 | Juan Matthews v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-03-03 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent | Was Louisiana's Jury verdict Scheme that convicted petitioner in violation to the U.S.C.A. 14th Amendment of the Louisiana's Constitution? Standard se… |
| 19-6272 | Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion | For claims that a party had a discriminatory intent in using a peremptory strike against a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (19… |
| 18-6919 | Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat… |
| 18-626 | Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability | This is a case of first impression and national importance affecting the entire United States housing industry. It concerns who can be held liable und… |