| 25-6852 |
Clinton Brinson v. Walmart, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act contractor-relationships disability-discrimination employment-law employment-retaliation joint-employer-liability |
1. Whether a client company that directly and expressly directs a contractor to terminate an
employee is a joint employer liable for retaliation unde… |
| 25-824 |
Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services |
Ohio |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards |
1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established
antiretaliation standards —specifically the misapplication of the
McDonnell Douglas burden-… |
| 25A362 |
Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1150 |
Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection |
In consideration of Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U. S. (2024), in a whistleblower complaint is the burden of proof - in the protection pro… |
| 24-6380 |
Megan Rust v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights-violation code-of-conduct employment-discrimination employment-retaliation labor-law workplace-harassment |
Whether LabCorp's change of Petitioner's employment status from full-time to vacation coverage in retaliation for Petitioner's report of bullying and … |
| 24A532 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
|
business-tort employment-retaliation injunctive-relief intellectual-property software-misappropriation trade-secrets |
Question not identified. |
| 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, … |
| 23-473 |
James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute |
1) Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage… |
| 23-363 |
Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching |
I. Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the … |
| 23-193 |
Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings dismissal due-process employment-retaliation freedom-of-speech judicial-recusal retaliation |
1. Should assigned District court judge John Tuchi recuse himself from personal involvement and conflict of interest of subject matter in dispute?
2.… |
| 22-6723 |
Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction |
Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to "Interstate Telephonic and Email —Computer Server Based … |
| 22-197 |
Yvonne T. Massaro v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adea age-discrimination burlington-northern causation causation-standard continuing-violation discrete-acts employment-retaliation hostile-work-environment pattern-and-practice retaliation |
Following Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway v. White, this Court held that employers are liable for retaliation under the ADEA for conduct that "… |
| 22-34 |
Wei-Ping Zeng v. Marshall University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action civil-procedure discrimination-claim employment-retaliation federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-proceedings record-on-appeal standing supervisory-power |
1. Whether the lower courts have departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to provide Petitioner the record on a… |
| 21-6783 |
Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation |
Breached contract of employment violated by defendant PeopleReady, Trueblue "2" National, and "1 Local Background Information reported to Command Acti… |
| 20-7399 |
Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
Federal law strictly prohibits false declaration and misleading conduct in Court against Rehabilitation Act binding in potential Agency that discharge… |
| 19-893 |
Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower |
1. Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption.
2. Whether s… |
| 18-9250 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment |
Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case if the Plaintiff is suffering for many years (over five and a half yea… |
| 18-7892 |
Sheila J. Halousek v. California Public Employees' Retirement System |
California |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-retaliation osha osha-protections privacy privacy-rights whistleblower workplace-safety |
With regard to the violation of Petitioner's civil rights to be "free and independent," "enjoying and defending life and liberty," and "pursuing and o… |
| 18-5529 |
Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 'error' when the court concluded that Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment Right was not violated during t… |
| 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… |