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25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest 1. Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminatin…
25-282 Carina Conerly v. Sharif Tarpin California 2025-09-10 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination government-conspiracy 1. WHETHER, The California Supreme Court Erred in denying Petitioner's Request For Review? 2. WHETHER, The Third Appellate District Court Erred by no…
25-5541 Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal 1. Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using the summary proced…
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations 1. Should Petitioner have been foreclosed from challenging the alleged fraud in Federal Court pursuant to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act be…
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation 1. Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly…
24A417 James A. Daly v. City of DeSoto, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete employment-termination first-amendment free-speech-rights public-employee speech-retaliation temporal-proximity Whether a public official has the right to terminate a public employee's employment over a year after the alleged speech took place.
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation The United States District Court Western District of Arkansas and the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, refused to hear Denise Johnson'…
23A837 Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. Colorado 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization (1) Under the church-autonomy doctrine, can a jury determine whether a doctor violated her employer's policies, where the doctor's underlying conduct …
23A552 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission Massachusetts 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete contractual-breach due-process employment-termination fair-hearing false-reporting medical-staff-privileges Question not identified.
23-5843 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Super Market, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-discrimination ada-qualified-individual ada-reasonable-accommodations ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-rights eeoc-filing employment-discrimination employment-termination judicial-review reasonable-accommodation • Defendants falsely claimed that the plaintiff did not file a timely EEOC, and ignored evidence supporting timely filing. Moreover, the plaintiff sho…
23-326 Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits 1. Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's "unprotected speech",…
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate 1. Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact …
22-7082 Crystal G. Jordan v. Atlanta Public Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights damages due-process employment-termination fmla fmla-retaliation medical-leave retaliation temporal-proximity workplace-discrimination 1. Is an Email (10 days after return from Protected Medical Leave) amongst Employer and Employer's Attorney expressing the intent to terminate employm…
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by denying the petitioner's certiorar…
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…
22-35 Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property In this case, the evidence Zhang used to have as proof of his claims was taken away and destroyed by UnitedHealth Group at time Zhang was fired becaus…
21-1151 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement 1. Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia, on August 25,1992, discharged appellant Arthur O. Armstrong, without just cause, without a hear…
21-286 Abeba Mekonnen v. OTG Management, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived discrimination-claims employee-manual employment-laws employment-termination fair-pay-act ledbetter-fair-pay-act mystery-shopper mystery-shopper-report performance-evaluation procedural-due-process termination wage-hour-law terminate employees by a Mystery Shopper Report1. Whether employers can in the context of Employment Laws. 1 2. Whether employer ean terminate my emp…
20-1399 Andrew J. Capul, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied coerced-resignation due-process employment-termination loudermill municipal-employment pre-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-rights property-interest property-rights Whether a municipal employer's coerced resignation of an employee with a protected property interest in continued employment requires pre-deprivation …
20-7595 Randy T. Thomas v. Steve Stanson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-leave medical-leave termination workplace-discrimination The Petitioner asks the court to decide if the Petitioner's protections under the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) where violated…
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication 1. By declining inquiry into a State agency's denial of due process to accused healthcare workers (e.g., the Petitioners), but instead deferring to th…
20-7116 Isabel Del Pino Allen v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College Florida 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeo eeoc-compliance employment-discrimination employment-termination public-institution tenure tenured-professor title-vii Whether Title VII and other Civil Rights and EEO-related federal decrees can be invoked by a publicly-funded college in an effort to "jump-start" a pr…
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 …
20-6158 Clara Lewis Brockington v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP discrimination due-process education-requirements employment-termination equal-protection master's-degree test-administration workers-compensation workplace-discrimination 1/ Why did S. C. Department of Social Services terminate Pro Se Plaintiff from employment with S. C. Department of Social Services when it was not abo…
20-346 D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit, consistent with this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should have exercised jurisdiction and c…
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment 1. What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability? 2. Is it a reasonable accommodation to mod…
19-935 Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction On February 5, 2016, Hamilton County Coal, LLC ("HCC") notified 158 full-time employees, approximately 50 percent of its full-time workforce, that the…
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period New York State Courts have consistently annulled determinations of administrative agencies that terminated the employment of competitive class civil s…
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Due to the injury, whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy which rendered him ("Plaintiff") him disabled under the American Disability Act, 42 …
18-537 Booth James v. Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-violations employment-termination evidence-substitution fraud free-speech proximate-cause whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Could a reasonable jury have found that Mr. Perry retaliatory attitude toward Officer James for whistleblowing, to a government representative, the pr…
18-5401 Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations To clarify the validity of the right-to-sue letter issued to the petitioner from the EEOC. To clarify if the US District Court Worcester, Massachuset…