employee-rights
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-488 | Valerie Asato v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, et al. | Hawaii | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-search duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights fourth-amendment grievance-process labor-law | 1. Whether the Hawaii Government Employees Association ("HGEA") breached its duty of fair representation under federal and state labor law by engag… |
| 24-1305 | Marcus Todd v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5 | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | consent-diversion employee-rights first-amendment janus-standard public-sector-union state-action | In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that a public-sector union cannot obtain direct payroll deductions from a nonmember unless it has "clear and compe… |
| 24-1101 | Ali Bahreman v. Allegiant Air, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights labor-organization railway-labor-act union-representation | 1. Do a union and employer violate § 2, Fourth by requiring non-members to financially support a union in a manner not authorized by § 2, Eleventh (a)… |
| 24-381 | Jane Churchon v. Sutter Valley Hospitals | California | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-complaint employee-rights garmon-doctrine labor-law nlrb-preemption | Whether the Court should overrule Garmon or at least clarify that factual overlap between a civil complaint and an NLRB complaint is insufficient to i… |
| 23-7214 | Chanel Tarrant v. Christiana Care, et al. | Delaware | 2024-04-12 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-benefits employment-law long-term-disability occupational-safety tort-law workers-compensation workplace-injury | "Hospital after working for them for 3O-years "an "and getting injured on the job? |
| 23-6427 | Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-accountability civil-rights due-process employee-rights hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-retaliation | Multiple Retaliations by a Human Services Agency Can a supervisor or an agency legally retaliate against an employee (by 'flipping' the employee's 'g… |
| 23-179 | Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO | Alaska | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev… |
| 23-5069 | Lola Bonitta McGee v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power civil-rights disability due-process employee-rights federal-employment government-accountability medical-disability retaliation workplace-discrimination workplace-harassment | 1. When an exemplary employee works for the United States Postal Service, in management, and the employee was discriminated against, by management, th… |
| 22-1150 | Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law | The North Carolina Property Protection Act gives property owners a civil cause of action for certain torts committed in the nonpublic areas of their p… |
| 22-1096 | Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response Waived | collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine | In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that government employers may not withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union unless the employee affirma… |
| 22-469 | Cooperative Educational Service Agency #5 v. Sarah Simon | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights equitable-relief federal-family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation monetary-damages prejudice-standard ragsdale-v-wolverine-world-wide seventh-circuit-interpretation standing | 1. Does an employee's subjective loss of status that cannot be remedied by monetary damages or appropriate equitable relief constitute prejudice that … | |
| 22-446 | Cheryl Prince-Moore v. Texas Dow Employees Credit Union | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights health-benefits job-protection statutory-violation termination workplace-discrimination | 1. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job protected leave per year. It also requires th… |
| 22-226 | Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing | Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether… |
| 22-195 | Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation | Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri… |
| 22-20 | John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits | In an issue of critical importance affecting approximately hundreds of Allstate retirees, as well as ERISA beneficiaries elsewhere, who retired early … |
| 21-1565 | State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. | North Carolina | 2022-06-15 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation | When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim… | |
| 21-7579 | Taqwa Siddeeq v. DeKalb County, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | conflict-of-interest court-record due-process employee-response employee-rights government-counsel government-employment job-tenure loudermill-standard termination-intent | Does due process for terminated employee exist under the Loudermill standard when government counsel withholds from the court record the employee's wr… |
| 21-1307 | Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon | California | 2022-03-30 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent | Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim… |
| 21-1121 | Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote | California | 2022-02-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent | Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim… |
| 21-827 | Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra | Whether, to shift the burden of proof to the employer in a Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) case, the employee must … |
| 21-672 | Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation | Second Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination | The statutory language of the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. ("FMLA") provides that employees are "entitled to be restored" to… | |
| 21-639 | Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response Waived | dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights | In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a right to refuse to subsidize union speech, that "States and public-sector… |
| 20-1786 | JoAnne Troesch, et al. v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions janus-vs-afscme union-dues waiver waiver-doctrine | Under the First Amendment, to seize payments for union speech from employees who provide notice they are nonmembers and object to supporting the union… |
| 20-1751 | Susan Fischer, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment government-action public-employee standing union-dues union-speech waiver waiver-doctrine | In 2018, the Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 24… |
| 20-1603 | Susan Bennett v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | affirmative-consent employee-rights first-amendment janus-v-afscme paycheck-deduction public-sector-union public-sector-unions union-dues waiver waiver-requirement | In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 (2018), this Court held that no payment to a union may be deducted from a nonmembers' paycheck u… |
| 20-1573 | Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Angie Moriana | California | 2021-05-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (27)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | bilateral-arbitration class-action concepcion employee-rights epic-systems federal-arbitration-act iskanian paga private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative c… |
| 20-1120 | Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues | 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived … |
| 20-732 | David Wyche v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration | Second Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-review civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-termination occupational-safety prima-facie-case termination whistleblower whistleblower-protection workplace-safety | 1. Under the OSH Act of 1970 Do I fit the criteria as a whistleblower (1) considering I made work complaints to human resources; within two weeks of … |
| 20-568 | William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity | Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,… |
| 19-7199 | Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller | Second Circuit | 2020-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence | John Schaller, the then President of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, should not be allowed qualified immunity for many reasons. A… |
| 19-6162 | Sean V. Terry v. Swift Transportation | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment medical-ethics medical-examination privacy privacy-violation regulations workplace-conduct | Is it Lawful, for an "Employer appointed Physician, to require an Employee, or an Apprentice thereof, to "lower, or remove outer clothing, and underw… |
| 19-182 | Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response Waived | california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements | 1. Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enfor… |
| 18-9426 | Paul Duriso v. West Gulf Maritime Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employee-rights grievance-process ila-constitution labor-law legal-jurisdiction maritime-law statute-of-limitations texas-civil-practice-and-remedies-code texas-code | In the case of Rhonda Stelly vs. West Gulf Maritime et al, 4-17-cv-2392 and several related cases such as this case Paul Duriso vs. West Gulf Maritime… |
| 18-608 | Capital Medical Center v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-11-09 | Denied | acute-care-hospital employee-rights informational-picketing labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlrb private-property private-property-rights section-7-rights unfair-labor-practices | 1. Whether the National Labor Relations Board (Board), as affirmed by the D.C. Circuit, correctly determined that Republic Aviation Corp. v. NLRB, 324… | |
| 18-6476 | Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. | Michigan | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse | Must a court overlook co- workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile enviro… |
| 18-5411 | Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation | Was there a legal obligation, company Jofaz Transportation, Inc.? Which is included according to the laws Employer "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1… |