| 25-941 |
Nonna Y. Sorokina v. The College of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
actual-knowledge cat's-paw-theory employment-law pregnancy-discrimination prima-facie-case staub-standard |
Dr. Sorokina appeals to this Court the order of the
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit solely with respect to
her pregnancy discrimination claim… |
| 25-6519 |
Cornelius Davis v. Southeast QSR LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment-law racial-discrimination workplace-retaliation |
Fact 1. Racial Discrimination. Based on my first argument Tenecca Brunner is Caucasian, she is a female and I'm black male. She got her job back.
Fac… |
| 25-714 |
Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination |
1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others … |
| 25-620 |
California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2025-12-01 |
Pending |
|
class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour |
After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment… |
| 25-6176 |
Melanie Nicole Moore v. Pooches of Largo, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
contract-interpretation employment-law flsa-retaliation judicial-procedure minimum-wage wage-dispute |
1. Whether the district court's characterization of Petitioner's unpaid wage complaint as "merely" a contract dispute rather than a violation of the F… |
| 25-431 |
Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment |
Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition … |
| 25A258 |
Tonnesha Kidd v. Lourdes Medical Center at Burlington, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-law pro-se-litigation race-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment third-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-164 |
Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove "retaliatory intent" in an Individual Right to Action, (IRA), under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancem… |
| 25-103 |
BofI Federal Bank, nka Axos Bank v. Charles Matthew Erhart |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law personnel-action sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection |
Under AIR-21's two-step framework, can evidence showing an employee's protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action… |
| 25A5 |
Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1204 |
Yaakov Markel v. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, a Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-breach employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception overtime-compensation religious-institutions |
1. Whether Religious institutions are bound
by the contracts they voluntarily enter
into, or are entitled, after performance by
their minister, to … |
| 24-7012 |
Carla McCray v. Miami Dade County Public Schools, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
employment-law federal-statute fmla medical-leave mental-health uniform-standard |
Whether the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601, a federal statute intended for the entire national citizenry, should have one uniform … |
| 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… |
| 24-935 |
Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Granted |
Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… |
| 24-896 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii |
1. Can a complaint allege direct violation of Title VII?
2. Should the case go back to the district court to discover the hiring information the empl… |
| 24-867 |
IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2025-02-13 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
A noncompete agreement imposes limitations on an employee's ability to compete against his or her employer immediately after separating from the compa… |
| 24-6555 |
Bianca A. Hughley v. Southwest Airlines |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration breach-of-contract employment-law grievance-procedures minor-disputes railway-labor-act |
Did the United States District Court of Maryland err in their decision to dismiss Ms. Hughley's Breach of Contract claim knowing that Ms. Hughley was … |
| 24-733 |
Daniel Snyder v. Arconic, Corp., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
abercrombie-standard accommodation employment-law prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii |
Whether an employee's sincere religious belief or practice, without more, establishes a prima facie case under Abercrombie. |
| 24-626 |
F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor |
First Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance |
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) creates an
overtime exemption for "administrative" employees as
that term is "defined and delimited from time to t… |
| 24-493 |
Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation |
Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still … |
| 24-5781 |
Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment |
1. Whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in essentially holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a violation of … |
| 24-399 |
Helen Allen v. Ford Motor Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment-law first-amendment hostile-work-environment racial-harassment summary-judgment workplace-discrimination |
1. Whether evidence of Harassment and Discrimination, as documented by
Petitioner in numerous complaints that were acknowledged by Ford Motor
Company … |
| 24-5522 |
Billie R. James v. Southland Casino |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights employment-law prima-facie-case procedural-fairness summary-judgment |
Did the District Court's and the Court of Appeals' failure to address James' allegations (i.e. forgeries and fabricated documents, denial of motions, … |
| 24-5422 |
MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance |
"For the purpose of Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, does a state employer's refusal to take a required step for the hiring of a person beca… |
| 24-78 |
Intelligent Waves, LLC v. Marthe Lattinville-Pace |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adea age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission fourth-circuit |
Does a claim of age discrimination under 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. fail in the absence of but-for causation? |
| 24-62 |
Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law municipal-employment performance-evaluation state-law summary-discharge |
1. Whether a permanent employee who has served
for less than five years in the noncompetitive
class in the City of New York could be summarily
disc… |
| 24-49 |
James E. Hitch v. The Frick Pittsburgh |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
|
adverse-action burden-of-proof causation civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment employment-law retaliation |
Whether James E. Hitch has proven a claim for retaliation under the " but for" causation test? |
| 24-5069 |
Phile Andra Watson v. FedEx Express |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act but-for-causation causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-law motivating-factor |
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination "on the basis of" disability, but does not specifically set forth the standard to be … |
| 24-30 |
John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings |
1. When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under the standard set in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) and applied in a broader context in… |
| 24-10 |
Marecia Bell v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-2000e-16 employment-law federal-employment pay-discrimination protected-class summary-judgment title-vii title-vii-discrimination |
1. Whether a failure to follow federal rules relating to pay without credible explanation that results in a protected class receiving less pay than ot… |
| 23-1296 |
Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly… |
| 23-1283 |
Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation |
The Family and Medical Leave Act makes it "unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, … |
| 23-7576 |
Solomon A. Jones v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-law in-forma-pauperis minimum-wage pandemic service-of-process sovereign-immunity unemployment-benefits unemployment-insurance |
Can unemployment insurance benefits be denied to persons whose employment is terminated through no fault of their own, whether or not they meet some m… |
| 23-1238 |
Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder v. Austin Peay State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-state-law employment-law hostile-work-environment motion-to-amend motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading reasonable-person retaliation retaliation-claim |
Whether Petitioner's claim for retaliation required her to prove she suffered severe or pervasive conduct by her supervisor rather than conduct which … |
| 23-7490 |
Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP |
civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination |
Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business ' premises for work because her admission woul… |
| 23-7434 |
Samuel T. Whatley, II v. Waffle House, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
agency-oversight civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights declaration-of-independence due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction wage-payment wages |
1. Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights, such as the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, provide p… |
| 23-7331 |
Carol Ann McBratnie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act case-precedent disability disability-status employee employment-law job-applicant medical-inquiry reasonable-accommodation |
Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals [Appeals Court] and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (US District Court) apply the wron… |
| 23A932 |
Phile Andra Watson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-discrimination civil-rights employment-law extension-of-time federal-employer pro-se-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 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? |
| 23-7218 |
Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment |
1. WHY WERE MY FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATED BY BOTH THE DISTRICT
AND 10TH CIRCUIT COURTS?
2. WHY WAS MY REQUEST FOR A JURY TRIAL AN… |
| 23-6995 |
Rosaura Strous v. Superior Court of California, Yuma County |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process employment-law judicial-procedure sexual-discrimination sexual-harassment standing |
Question 1) What claims did you raise to the court below?
Claims of sexual harassment that have not been addressed. Sexual
discrimination as well as … |
| 23-967 |
Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination |
Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause … |
| 23A701 |
Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-deference due-process employment-law national-security security-clearance whistleblower-protection |
Recognizing the misuse of security clearance decisions as tools for tyranny and retaliation, Congress enacted Public Law 117-103 on March 15, 2022, At… |
| 23-795 |
Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights |
The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim… |
| 23-748 |
Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials |
This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et… |
| 23-706 |
Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
29-usc-216b collective-action employment-law exemptions fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay procedural-joinder salary-basis wage-exemption |
1. whether an employee is paid on a salary basis for purposes of the EAP exemptions to the FLSA and its implementing regulations, 29 C.F.R. § 541.604(… |
| 23A575 |
Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6223 |
Christopher Louis Sindone v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-habeas-corpus harassment legal-standing retaliation statutory-interpretation |
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… |
| 23-460 |
C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers |
The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not "apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged i… |
| 23-441 |
Patrick Fehlman v. James Mankowski |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation public-employee public-employment retaliation |
Is the government free to continue to retaliate against a former public employee for speech made during the employee's employment? |
| 23-275 |
Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as th… |
| 23-5622 |
Ervie Savage v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability disability-insurance employer-liability employment employment-law insurance sedgwick-claims workers-compensation workplace-injury |
Under what rules does Walmart Stores have the right to decide not to cover
An employee injured on the job? Why was I not paid, while off work on a
Lea… |
| 23-217 |
E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption |
Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence—… |
| 23-5382 |
Julie A. Graham v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges due-process employee-suspension employment employment-law hearing-requirements |
Where employer suspends employee indefinitely for waiver of prelimin ary hearing
on a variety of criminal charges, but affords employee no kind of he… |
| 23-34 |
Delila Uwasomba v. Bank of America, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure claim claim-pleading corporate-negligence dismissal due-process economic-damages employment-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Is it appropriate for a case to be dismissed for not stating a claim and the stated claim dismissed as time barred?
I've been told by attorneys that … |
| 22-1187 |
Julia Keller-McIntyre v. California |
California |
2023-06-08 |
Rehearing |
|
ada civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-employment protected-status reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act |
Under California laws California State University Executive Code 1096, California Government Code 19230, and California Education Code 87102, and unde… |
| 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… |
| 22-979 |
Nicole Owens v. Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ADA ada-amendments-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination employment-law interactive-process major-life-activities pregnancy-discrimination-act reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act |
When an employee suffers from a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits her in one or more major life activities, what form must a req… |
| 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? |
| 22-7006 |
Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-799 |
Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex. |
| 22-660 |
Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law intent personnel-action retaliation retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Under the burden-shifting framework that governs Sarbanes-Oxley cases, must a whistleblower prove his employer acted with a "retaliatory intent" as pa… |
| 22-6336 |
James C. Tate v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union Local 8363 |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim district-court-discretion due-process employment-law standing summary-judgment summary-motion union-representation |
1. Did the District Court's discretion deny the petitioner due process?
2. Did the District Court in considering the facts presented in the summary m… |
| 22-462 |
Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case |
1. Did the lower court err in its issuing a directed verdict when a documented prima facie case of discrimination had been established?
2. Did the lo… |
| 22-439 |
Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior |
Federal Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th… |
| 22-443 |
Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to
hear colorable constitutional claims by federal
employees related to their employment—in this
ins… |
| 22-333 |
U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act |
(1) Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception, 29 U.S.C. § 2102(b)(2)(B)?
(2) What causal connectio… |
| 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… |
| 22-75 |
ForwardLine Financial, LLC, et al. v. Brandon Ahlmann |
California |
2022-07-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement employment-agreement employment-law federal-arbitration-act iskanian labor-code labor-code-violations paga private-attorneys-general-act viking-river-cruises |
Whether, in light of Viking River Cruises, a mutual pre-dispute agreement to arbitrate all claims arising from the employment relationship is enforcea… |
| 21-1536 |
Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations |
Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of 'INA ' requirem… |
| 21-1444 |
Dolgen California, LLC v. Tricia Galarsa |
California |
2022-05-16 |
GVR |
|
bilateral-arbitration employment-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims |
The question presented is: Does the FAA require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot assert representati… |
| 21-1416 |
Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii |
After alleging that his immediate supervisor, the President of his Catholic high school, invoked racist stereotypes against Black people and other per… |
| 21-1408 |
Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo |
Maryland |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
|
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII … |
| 21-1315 |
Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness |
In an employment case, where the plaintiff disputes the truthfulness of the employer's asserted reason for termination, may a court immunize that reas… |
| 21-799 |
Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
protects employees from retaliation occurring
after the provi… |
| 21-744 |
William Maner v. Dignity Health, fka Catholic Healthcare West |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment employment-law favoritism gender-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii workplace-favoritism |
1. ) Where an employer allows workplace activities of ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of favoritism to occur, such as job hiring, 'job reten… |
| 21-6173 |
Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs |
New York |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility |
Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone (in over 95 percent … |
| 21-5850 |
Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination |
1. Whether, and in what circumstances, this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary (repugnant) to Federal law and DVA Policy & Proc… |
| 21-208 |
Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
|
affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy |
Before an employee may have been deemed to have waived the comprehensive rights, remedies and procedural protections prescribed in civil rights statut… |
| 21-165 |
In Re Gracie E. McBroom |
|
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision in their agreem… |
| 21-136 |
Melanie Pelcha v. Watch Hill Bank |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
|
adea age-discrimination but-for-causation but-for-test causal-standard causation employment employment-law summary-judgment workplace-termination |
1. Does the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
(ADEA) require the plaintiff to prove that age was the
sole reason for her termination?
2. Is the em… |
| 21-35 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or "lacks jurisdiction " to determine its original and lower court 's jurisdiction in OPM Investigatio… |
| 20-1720 |
Joanne Taylor-Cotten v. District of Columbia Public Schools |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-law impact-process retaliation |
1. Whether the district court erred in holding DCPS and OEA for violation of the IMPACT process by no providing Staff development
2. Whether OEA erre… |
| 20-1661 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights |
1. Whether School District of Philadelphia, on August 25.1992. discharged the petitioner from his
teaching position, without due process of law, with… |
| 20-1591 |
Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation |
1. Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the
absolute qualified immunity? Which is luring,
hiding, lying, cheating, stealing, RICO and
committing f… |
| 20-7921 |
Edward Shane West-El v. Mark J. Baker |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-hearing labor-rights overtime overtime-compensation standing tax-deduction wage-dispute wages |
1. In Earle v McVeigh, 91 US 503,23 L Ed 398, it says " Every person is entitled to an
opportunity to be heard in a court of law upon every question … |
| 20-7836 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Ted Wire, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law age-discrimination appointment-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-employment federal-question standing |
BOHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF Appeals ERk IN THE ORDER OF TISTRIUT o ADOPTING OF JUDGE SCHROEDER, IN DISMIS TE D. THOMAS Right(s) Aer OF 1964, TiTlE THE … |
| 20-1365 |
In Re Arno P. Kuigoua |
|
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection |
Whether in a case like this one, where the petitioner was denied on appeal his motion to remand his civil suit for jury trial, claiming six counts of … |
| 20-1231 |
Jennifer Smith v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Board of Trustees |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action burlington-northern collateral-estoppel employment-law equal-pay gender-discrimination salary-discrimination salary-equity |
1. Whether, under federal equal pay laws, the employer unlawfully discriminated against a female employee by failing to apply its salary equity adjust… |
| 20-1093 |
Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption |
Whether, as the Second Circuit held, Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt "outside salesmen" under the FLSA or, as the Sixth Circuit held, … |
| 20-1004 |
Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment |
1. Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a trier of f… |
| 20-6241 |
Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies |
(1) Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws.
(2) Whether The School District of Philadelph… |
| 20-6224 |
Brenda L. White v. Elite Beverages |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process duty-of-care employee-misconduct employer-responsibility employment-law reasonable-accommodation workplace-negligence workplace-safety |
1. Should a liquor store have rules drugs and alcohol and not follow them?
2. When a family member notices a problem with the employee and asks the l… |
| 20-6187 |
Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination |
Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a ["FMLA" ] time limitation violation , through no lack of diligence on her part, she is barred by … |
| 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,… |
| 20-500 |
Berlinda A. Madden v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination employment-law evidence material-fact retaliation summary-judgment union-president |
Whether a sworn affidavit of the Union President that company officials acted in retaliation for having filed an EEO complaint is a genuine issue of m… |
| 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… |
| 20-392 |
Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police |
New Jersey |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar |
A rule was violated because No Statement was Obtained From Me For the Preliminary Hearing and Yet I was Terminated. State Police Counsel used Law Agai… |
| 20-5779 |
Cynthia B. Woods v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-protection |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-257 |
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., et al. v. Maxcimo Scott, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Dismissed |
Amici (4)Relisted (5) |
civil-procedure class-certification collective-action district-court employment-law fair-labor-standards-act material-question opt-in-plaintiffs similarly-situated |
Whether a district court may consider factors other than the presence of a single material question of law or fact common to a group of employees when… |
| 20-194 |
Franklin Cox v. Texas Workforce Commission, et al. |
Texas |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
duty-to-defend employment-law substantial-evidence-rule tax-audit unemployment-insurance vicarious-liability |
1. Will the employee have a duty to defend employer tax audit for unemployment joined as employer in the above reference cause?
2. Under Tex. Lab. Co… |
| 20-159 |
John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. |
Minnesota |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation |
Does a State's workers compensation statute
violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota
residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently
ba… |
| 19-8398 |
Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. |
Michigan |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights employment employment-law hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability retaliation sexual-harassment workplace workplace-abuse |
Must a court overlook co- workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and
to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile enviro… |
| 19-8369 |
LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci… |
| 19-1210 |
Harry's Nurses Registry, et al. v. Claudia Gayle, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-enforcement condition-precedent employment-law fair-labor-standards-act private-right-of-action section-206 section-207 section-216(b) statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour |
Is the finding that the employer has violated
Section 206 or Section 207 of the Fair Labor Standards
Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq , a condition preced… |
| 19-8156 |
John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing |
1. Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly
denying Stancu's right to a j… |
| 19-1176 |
Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap |
The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys… |
| 19-7686 |
Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection |
I. Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VI I42 U.S.C. 2000(e) {Goodman v. Luke… |
| 19-7586 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation |
IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT? |
| 19-960 |
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company v. Steven R. Lilly |
Michigan |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure employment-law federal-employers-liability-act fela jury-instruction jury-instructions personal-injury preexisting-condition railroad-employee workplace-liability |
Whether, in a personal injury action brought by a railroad employee against his employer under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), a jury must… |
| 19-7064 |
Johanna Beanblossom v. Bay District Schools |
Florida |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process due-process-amendment employment-law first-amendment retaliation school-employment summary-judgment |
1. Absent unfair delay or futility, does fundamental due process require that a Plaintiff be allowed to amend a complaint at least once before a Court… |
| 19-788 |
Erin Daly v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement blacklisting dodd-frank employment-law finra-form-u-5 retaliation sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act sec-violations whistleblower-protection |
1. Whether the provisions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 protect whi… |
| 19-732 |
Richard Natofsky v. City of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
|
ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers… |
| 19-726 |
Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector |
In determining whether or not the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees as set forth by this Court in Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S.… |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did
the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
| 19-621 |
Thomas F. Sweeney v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure adverse-personnel-action agency-decision-making air-traffic-control civil-rights due-process employment-law federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board mspb personnel-action termination |
The FAA is generally exempted from the Title 5 Personnel Management System, yet FAA employees MSPB Appeal rights are retained. FAA's employment policy… |
| 19-549 |
Hannah P. v. Joseph Maguire, Acting Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conduct conduct-based-termination disability disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-law reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act |
The question presented is whether an employment decision that is based on conduct caused by a qualified individual's disability is insulated from scru… |
| 19-535 |
Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial discrimination and retaliation claims for a reasonable fact… |
| 19-446 |
VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
charge-of-discrimination discrimination-charge eeoc employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission investigation investigative-authority private-litigation right-to-sue title-vii |
1. Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission … |
| 19-269 |
Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim - here, that defendant Entergy retaliated against … |
| 19-5594 |
Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment |
The Court review[s],the district court 's decision granting the summary judgment under Rule 60
(b) for abuse of discretion
A. The Notice of Appeal o… |
| 19-186 |
Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment |
An estimated 10 million or 4% of US internet users have been threatened with or experienced the posting of explicit intimate images without their cons… |
| 19-5541 |
Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii |
1. Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?
2. Does general corporate know… |
| 19-157 |
Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard |
Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is … |
| 19-5192 |
Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii |
Is a plaintiffs prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonabl… |
| 18-1541 |
Yassine Baouch, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., dba Werner Trucking, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-conflict employee-reimbursement employment-law fair-labor-standards-act internal-revenue-code minimum-wage per-diem per-diem-payments reimbursement wage-classification wages |
Under what circumstances do per diem payments to an employee constitute wages, rather than reimbursement, under section 207(e)(2) of the FLSA? |
| 18-9628 |
Ella W. Horn v. CRC Health Group, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection race-discrimination retaliation section-1981 sexual-harassment |
Whether the District court and Ninth Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the due process clause for equal protection by failing to … |
| 18-9480 |
Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center |
The petitioner was injured on three occassions while performing his duties at Bensalem Youth Developement Center. (DPW). The second injury, the agency… |
| 18-1442 |
Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors |
The central question presented in this case is whether a false rumor, alleged to have originated out of jealousy, that a female employee received a pr… |
| 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… |
| 18-8859 |
LaShunda Borden v. Cheaha Regional Mental Health Center, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-perjury criminal-procedure due-process employment-law first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-ethics perjury standing |
Is it Illegal for a company to commit perjury to win a lawsuit?
The first Amendment gives everyone the right of freedom of speech does, not that incl… |
| 18-1299 |
Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
I. Does the Precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict United States Supreme Court precedent of Schindler Elevator Co… |
| 18-8553 |
Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1154 |
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition |
The last time this case was here, the Court unanimously held that time spent by employees in post-shift security screenings is not compensable worktim… |
| 18-1143 |
Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction |
Whether the Court should resolve the following question: can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction… |
| 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… |
| 18-1070 |
Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
|
employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership |
Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act
states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as
authorizing the execution or application of ag… |
| 18-1047 |
Crystal Wade v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
disability-discrimination employment-law indefinite-leave medical-leave prima-facie-case qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act workers-compensation |
Does a United States Court of Appeals ruling which affirmed the per se requirements of Wood v. Green, 323 F.3d 1309, 1314 (11th Cir, 2003), and which … |
| 18-1011 |
Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. |
Texas |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act |
The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the … |
| 18-857 |
Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern |
Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override… |
| 18-754 |
David A. Ramirez v. Walmart |
North Dakota |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination due-process employee-termination employment employment-law labor labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workload-allocation workplace-dismissal |
Why did the Walmart lawyer tell the court that this was a protected activity?
In serial dismissals, as a protected activity, do statutes allow that t… |
| 18-657 |
Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights |
Petitioner, a tenured civil servant, was terminated from his position following a positive drug test. Insisting he had never used illegal drugs and th… |
| 18-312 |
David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard |
Tennessee |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act |
Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,… |
| 18-272 |
Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (6) |
circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential |
1. The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority … |
| 18-193 |
John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation… |
| 18-122 |
Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing |
County Commissioner Michael Sinegal terminated
Dawn Polk for being a bad employee. The terminationoccurred after she had unsuccessfully run for office… |
| 18-94 |
Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
1. Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discrimina… |