| 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… |
| 25-5288 |
Eddie Mekasha v. Christy Chapplear, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
covid-19-complications disparate-treatment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity performance-review workplace-termination |
The petitioner, Eddie Mekasha, was terminated by Tyson Fresh Meats on June 1, 2021, for a misdemeanor related to COVID-19 complications, despite havin… |
| 24-6037 |
Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii |
• Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination and hostile work environment where the … |
| 23-7499 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of sho… |
| 23-1039 |
Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii |
Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show "background circumstances to support the suspic… |
| 23-6370 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearance-system constitutional-rights disparate-treatment dod-clearance-system due-process eeo-records employer-discrimination equal-justice retaliation sixth-amendment |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1662 (DC-3443-21-0137-1-1) which was about Removing the last discriminatory '2' appr… |
| 23-481 |
Temple of 1001 Buddhas, et al. v. City of Fremont, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights disparate-treatment first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause municipal-liability searching-review section-1983 |
1. Whether a state municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when decision rights and associated impingements on free exercise are distri… |
| 23-5682 |
Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure |
1. Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations abo… |
| 23-110 |
Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault
23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio |
May an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelieved … |
| 22-7228 |
Sharon Hardman v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights disparate-treatment due-process employment employment-law equal-protection promotion protected-class workplace-rights |
What does the Age Discrimination Act in Employment of 1967 state about a person seeking promotion over the age of 40? |
| 21-1353 |
Isabella Nartey v. Franciscan Health Hospital |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process emergency-medical-treatment medical-negligence supplemental-jurisdiction title-vi |
1. Equitable Aid. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act forbids Medicare-participating hospitals from withholding or downgrading medica… |
| 21-6690 |
Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii |
1. Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Cor… |
| 21-5965 |
In Re Jennifer L. Kammerer |
|
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination disciplinary-program disparate-treatment equal-protection license-revocation mental-illness professional-license professional-licensing |
1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, TO PUNISH AN INDIVIDUAL FOR BEING MENTALLY ILL, BY SUMMARILY REVOKING THEIR PROFESSIONAL LICEN… |
| 20-7706 |
JaKara Vester v. Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. |
Delaware |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
autism disability-discrimination disparate-treatment fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability pretext-discrimination reasonable-accommodation special-needs |
The Fair Housing Act ("FHA ") is a policy enacted by
Congress to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair
housing throughout the United … |
| 20-790 |
Reginald Eric Sprowl v. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights disparate-treatment employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case summary-judgment |
1. Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis? |
| 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… |
| 20-259 |
Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination |
Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp… |
| 20-172 |
Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment |
1. Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same su… |
| 20-143 |
Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts |
SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 19-881 |
Joseph Smith, et al. v. Pamela Motley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anecdotal-evidence burden-of-proof civil-rights discriminatory-policing disparate-treatment equal-protection government-treatment ninth-circuit statistical-analysis |
Under existing Ninth Circuit and United States Supreme Court authority, a plaintiff can establish an Equal Protection Clause violation in the context … |
| 19-380 |
Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation |
This case poses multiple questions due to on
going and continuous instances of conduct rising to a
level of discrimination, harassment, intimidation,… |
| 18-9418 |
D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing |
The questions are presented to be review based on the violation of the 14th amendment under equal protection. The CAE airport has terminated non-white… |
| 18-1399 |
Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association |
Ohio |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas… |
| 18-8409 |
Anthony Mungin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 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… |
| 18-7763 |
Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip |
Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
Whether Awarding VERAIVSIP to others in MDA and even in my own office, and not awarding it to me, is okay or even leg… |
| 18-6823 |
James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii |
Was the Plaintiff, under The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the Constitution, and The Fair Employment and Housing Act and The Civil Rights Ac… |
| 18-5078 |
Bruce Pace v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-5054 |
Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-5012 |
Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments bec… |