equal-pay-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6413 La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation 1.) Does the Americans with Disabilities Act/federal law, prohibit and makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate and/or retaliate against an …
23-891 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constructive-termination discrimination equal-pay-act hostile-work-environment pleading-standard retaliation title-vii Title VII, the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and the Equal Protection Clause, inter alia, prohibit 1) disparate treatment/wages based on gender and/or race; 2) …
23-561 Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity The Equal Pay Act ("EPA") prohibits an employer from "discriminat[ing] … between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such es…
22-1144 Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals should have voluntarily recused themselve…
22-7001 Sheniqua L. Watson v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Fourth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex job-requirements prima-facie-case substantially-equal veteran-status veterans-preference Question 1: The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Richmond Division and the United States District Court of Appeals for the Fourth …
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…
19-8202 Linda Gough v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company Fourth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-rights-act employee-classification employment-classification equal-pay-act fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor outside-sales-exemption title-vii-civil-rights-act wage-and-hour-law Whether Bankers Life properly classified Gough as an independent contractor and not an employee? Whether the "outside sales" exemption applies to Lin…
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…
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f…
18-928 Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii 1. Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims. 2. Whether state law (as opposed to federal common law) det…
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 …