gender-discrimination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-599 James P. Baumgartner v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived court-martial discretionary-review gender-discrimination panel-selection prima-facie race-discrimination Since at least 1988, race- and gender-based discrimination was permissible when selecting court martial panel members, the functional equivalent of ju…
25-5469 Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-26 Denied Amici (5)IFP batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether this Court may review the merits of an undisputable violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) where the state court app…
24-99 Dale Folwell, State Treasurer of North Carolina, et al. v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) equal-protection gender-discrimination gender-dysphoria healthcare-exclusion medical-coverage sex-based-classification sex-discrimination state-health-plans transgender-rights Whether a State's decision to decline to provide health benefit coverage for treatments leading to sex changes violates the Equal Protection Clause.
23A1083 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete custody-rights equal-protection gender-discrimination parental-rights social-services welfare-benefits Question not identified.
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing 1. Whether the lower court rehed on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender d…
23A568 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete child-custody constitutional-rights equal-rights-amendment gender-discrimination parental-rights strict-scrutiny Question not identified.
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…
23-5682 Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (10)IFP constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure 1. Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations abo…
21-7614 Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender? All person's does not specifically state gen…
21-1285 M & N Financing Corporation, et al. v. Department of Fair Employment and Housing California 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-excessiveness eighth-amendment excessive-fines gender-discrimination penalty-damages small-business small-business-liability state-statute In an action for alleged gender discrimination in violation of a state civil rights statute, is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages ag…
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men? II. Did the S…
21-850 Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection gender-classification gender-discrimination government-interest governmental-interest moral-sensibilities tailoring Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the govern-ment may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-ba…
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…
21-5259 James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct 1. The State may not selectively deny its protective services to certain minorities without violating the Equal Protection Clause. Petitioner's wife a…
20-7804 Michael William Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-sentencing civil-rights due-process gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b-v-alabama jury-selection psychopathy-evidence 1. Whether this Court meant it when it wrote that "a pattern of strikes against black [or here, women] jurors included in this particular venire might…
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…
20-928 National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service In Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981), this Court held that the Military Selective Service Act, under which men—but not women—are required to reg…
20-614 Thomas D. Kerr v. Heidi L. Kerr Montana 2020-11-06 Denied child-rearing constitutional-guarantees constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-law gender-discrimination parental-rights parenting supreme-court-review Can the Montana Supreme Court ignore the unjustifiable and inexplicable decisions of the lower court discriminate against a father for no other discer…
20-5688 Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un…
19-8463 Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti…
19-8174 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi 1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den…
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…
19-927 Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") to provide a remedy to students attending publicly funded educational instit…
19-6866 Sheila Jackson v. Garda CL East, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeco employment-discrimination fair-labor-standards-act gender-discrimination overtime-pay retaliation standing workplace-rights 1. How can I be terminated for something that I wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination? 2. How can I be te…
19-6667 James Anthony Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN SHALL BE HELD IN PRISON FOR AN
19-64 Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity 1. Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public—classify on the basis of gender? 2. D…
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation (1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection…
18-1268 Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California California 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 1. Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Vio…
18-6929 Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-rights climate-change constitutional-crisis due-process environmental-law equal-protection gender-discrimination political-feud racial-discrimination restoration Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth case number 2-18-cv-00611 Was submitted for possible dismissal as frivolous pursuant.
18-6306 Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes 1. When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male an…
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 …
18-5585 Karen Mackey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search I. The Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's vehi…
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…