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25A844 Brian Armstrong v. WB Studio Enterprises, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application dei-policy employment-selection hostile-work-environment race-discrimination section-1981 workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25A614 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
25-434 Timothy Ryan Gove v. Sargento Foods, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Rehearing Relisted (2) administrative-investigation civil-rights corporate-liability employment-discrimination federal-regulations hostile-work-environment 1. If management of a company orders and directs activities outside of its facilities listed under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(c) or framing-up an/or under…
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
24-7214 Anthony J. Woods v. N'Gai Smith Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied IFP article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process hostile-work-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment 1. Whether Anthony J. Woods had Article III Standing to petition the court to redress his grievances under U.S. Constitution 1S* Amendment? 2. Did th…
24-893 Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying the request for a rehearing en banc, given that Eric Katz suffered through a hostile work environment …
24-794 Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response Waived actionable-conduct discrete-acts employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-harassment statute-of-limitations In assessing the timeliness of employment claims, the U.S. Supreme Court case of National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) v. Morgan, 536 U.S. 101, 1…
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun…
24-603 Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit committed error when it affirmed the district court's acceptance of DEA's Notice of Discovery Compliance including a decl…
24-6037 Shar Issa Murphy v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disparate-treatment hostile-work-environment race-discrimination rehabilitation-act sex-discrimination title-vii • Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's Title VII claims of race and sex discrimination and hostile work environment where the …
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 …
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 …
23-7531 Tiffany P. Range v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-representation pro-se settlement sexual-harassment standing I do understand this case has been very prolonged especially without being able to obtain the proper legal representation during this entire process, …
23-1031 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work environment case and eliminate from considerat…
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 …
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) …
23-6731 Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony 1) I would like the Supreme Court to review my case which successfully achieved sworn testimony from Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. owner Tom Gallegos …
23A647 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-conduct Question not identified.
23-6427 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP agency-accountability civil-rights due-process employee-rights hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-retaliation Multiple Retaliations by a Human Services Agency Can a supervisor or an agency legally retaliate against an employee (by 'flipping' the employee's 'g…
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation This appeal presents this Court with an opportunity to resolve an conflict in the Circuits concerning the construction of Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), namely w…
22-1247 Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e2 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national ori…
22-7448 Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some…
22-7380 Toivania Ereachia Gill v. TBG Food Acquisition Corp. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constructive-discharge due-process equal-protection hostile-work-environment legal-procedure standing 1) Did the United States Western District of Virginia Court dismiss Plaintiffs claim of constructive discharge prematurely when the burden of proof on…
22-5815 Ehonam Agbati, aka Roger Agbati v. Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP causal-link civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pay-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation retaliatory-action title-vii Question 1: Whether in Title VII, Civil Right Act of 1964, prohibition of discrimination based on race, color, and national origin; an employer is de…
22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Immediately after beginning his employment with Respondent as a pharmacist in March 2015, Petitioner became the direct object of his Caucasian coworke…
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 "…
21-7627 Gwendolyn Hearn v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hostile-environment hostile-work-environment management-misconduct retaliation workplace-harassment Why didn't VMF Manager Suzanne Peters investigate the complaint letter subjected, "Hostile Environment" for September 23, 2016, dated September 25, 20…
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar 1) Whether the Courts below erred in holding the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims, …
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation 1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation. 2. Whether an emp…
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act 1. Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled empl…
20-1711 Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2021-06-11 Denied attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation Whether the New Jersey Judiciary's denial of the motion to intervene by the Petitioner in the an action on the basis that Petitioner does not have "an…
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii I. Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII (42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16(a)), which provides in pertinent part that "All personnel actions affecting…
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc in the underlying claims …
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…
20-341 Natalie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived ada-constructive-discharge ada-essential-functions ada-hostile-work-environment ada-reasonable-accommodation ada-telework ada-undue-hardship constructive-discharge disability-discrimination essential-job-functions hostile-work-environment medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation This Court, in US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett. 535 U.S. 391 (2002), considered what burden of proof governs the determination that an accommodation is re…
20-172 Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment 1. Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same su…
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Assuming the other elements of a Title VII claim are present, is sexual harassment (1) unlawful if a reasonable person would conclude, in light of all…
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…
19-7997 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing Question not identified.
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Me FEDERAL COURT IN GREENBELT, MD AND THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT IN RICHMOND VA, DENIED MY STATUTORY RIGHTS ASSERTED UNDER BOTH TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RI…
19-380 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation This case poses multiple questions due to on going and continuous instances of conduct rising to a level of discrimination, harassment, intimidation,…
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…
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Although More Lengthy than what is Standard, Petitioner Respectfully seeks Leave of the Court to Provide this More Detailed Response Because of the Im…
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…
18A1323 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation eeoc-charges employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-discharge sexual-harassment Question not identified.
18A1286 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence Question not identified.
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Plaintiff asserts the continuing violation exception to the Title VII limitation period. If a Title VII plaintiff files an EEOC charge that is timely …
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…
18-1204 Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response Waived discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1. Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discre…
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment An EEOC Complaint should not be "strictly interpreted" due process of law should be administered for evidence to be given to the court; contradictions…
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim in this cause have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2. [Sect…
18-624 Jinae Rasko v. New York City Administration for Children's Services Second Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causal-connection civil-rights corrective-action direct-evidence employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment pretext retaliation title-vii I. Whether an employer is liable for discrimination under Title VII, when: There are DIRECT EVIDENCES of discrimination, including the evidence of PRE…
18-6476 Joseph White v. Detroit East Community Mental Health, et al. Michigan 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment fraud hostile-environment hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation organizational-liability sexual-harassment standing statutory-interpretation workplace-abuse Must a court overlook co- workers, supervisors, and organizational directors, to tease and to allow sexual harassment, thus creating a hostile enviro…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-5670 Margaret Campise v. New York Commissioner of Labor New York 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vii civil-rights constructive-termination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-environment hostile-work-environment sexual-harassment workplace workplace-rights Are the lower courts above the law as they do not see that Article VII does constitute constructive termination? Does that Article not include sexual…
18-71 Bernard T. Canete v. Barnabas Health System, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights employment-act hostile-work-environment military-status military-status-discrimination national-origin-discrimination race-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary judgment standard at the District Court which was adopted by …
18-5138 Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied? Why did the state agency ignored all the veterans and minorities that…
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment 1. Can a supervisor or an agency legally retaliate against an employee (by quickly 'flipping' the employee's 'good faith' report) for reporting HIPAA …