disparate-impact

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25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25A365 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-injury disparate-impact fair-housing-act water-liens Whether a federal court may certify a class action that contains members who claim no Article III injury apart from being subjected to a policy they a…
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…
24-1014 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied age-discrimination burden-of-proof disparate-impact eeoc-regulation employment-law reasonable-factors The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits employment practices that have an unjustified disparate impact on older workers, Smith v. Ci…
24A726 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. Denver Housing Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination judicial-accountability systemic-discrimination title-vi Question not identified.
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial Question not identified.
23-1340 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof civil-rights-litigation defendant-liability disparate-impact fair-housing-act legitimate-business-purpose prima-facie-burden statistical-disparity 1. Whether a plaintiff relying on a disparate-impact theory of liability under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., carries her prima facie…
23-1137 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (8) boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions The question presented is whether an equal protection challenge to facially race-neutral admission criteria is barred simply because members of the ra…
23A924 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Jose Dagoberto Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act housing-discrimination policy-challenge statistical-evidence 1. This case presents an important issue about disparate-impact liability under the Fair Housing Act ("FHA"), 42 U.S.C. § 3604. In Texas Department of…
23-1005 Ann Redd-Oyedele v. Santa Clara County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment employment-practices preponderance-of-evidence racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether a Court may properly grant summary judgment where a party failed to establish, by a preponderance of evidence, as shown in the records, tha…
23-765 Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs At the time of Petitioner's application for employment with the defendant institution, it was the policy of Veterans Affairs to require the following …
23-5502 Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amendmen…
23-5275 Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act 1. When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amend…
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…
21-6976 Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing Question not identified.
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? Is this presumption a logical…
20-1797 Fedie R. Redd v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination disparate-impact fair-housing-act foreclosure housing-discrimination mortgage-lending property-rights 1. Did the respondents engage in the practice of peddling subprime mortgages to unsuspecting Black American mortgagors? Was this practice discriminato…
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action brought by the United States against the State of …
20-1374 CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, One, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Granted Amici (21)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-statute civil-rights disability-discrimination disparate-impact health-insurance insurance patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act rehabilitation-act 1. Whether section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and by extension the ACA, provides a disparate-impact cause of action for plaintiffs alleging disabi…
20-957 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII, when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, disclose their bi…
19-1356 Thomas Joseph Skelton v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act bar-admission bar-certification disability-discrimination discrimination disparate-impact intentional-discrimination mental-health-status public-entities qualified-individual reasonable-accommodations Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, discrimination by public entities in all programs, activities, and services against qualified individuals w…
19-8432 Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California California 2020-05-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices Question not identified.
19-1257 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 15th-amendment ballot-collection discriminatory-burden disparate-impact election-integrity election-law fifteenth-amendment out-of-precinct-policy precinct-voting provisional-ballots section-2 voter-suppression voting-rights voting-rights-act Arizona, like every other State, has adopted rules to promote the order and integrity of its elections. At issue here are two such provisions: an "out…
19-497 The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp 1. Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the ra…
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California 2019-05-20 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce…
18-1346 Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, as this Court held when interpreti…
18-8896 Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Lo Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreasona…
18-8633 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiffs (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for …
18-1217 Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the FHA against a l…
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process 1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "…
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Courts often reject Batson claims where the prospective juror at issue has a relative with a criminal conviction, a reason that has a disparate impact…
18-163 James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc…
18-5180 Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or …