prima-facie
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-638 | Zhongxiao Michael Chen v. Michigan State University | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure electronic-filing in-forma-pauperis prima-facie rule-12b6 | 1. Whether a civil action is "commenced " under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 when a complaint is electronically delivered and date -stamped by … |
| 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… |
| 23-7659 | Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights contract-rights due-process equal-justice intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case procedural-due-process section-1981 summary-judgment trial | Section 1981 of Title 42 provides "all persons " in the United States "the same right " "to make and enforce contracts " as is "enjoyed by white citiz… |
| 23-6528 | Charles L. Burgett v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-2000e civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discrimi… |
| 23-783 | Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection | 1. Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof by requiring a whistleblower to prove causation by a "preponde… |
| 22-823 | Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson | Washington | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias | 1. Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause—by prohibiting counsel from presenti… |
| 22-6588 | In Re Beverly A. Jenkins | 2023-01-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection instructions legal-notice lower-tribunal notice prima-facie pro-se standing | 1. Is it herein shown that the LT deviated from Sufficient Instructions/ required sufficient Notice for non-counsel litigants? 2. Is it herein shown … | |
| 22-6518 | In Re Beverly A. Jenkins | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure due-process equal-protection lawsuit-dismissal lower-tribunal prima-facie procedural-rights standing | 3. Is it herein shown that the LT deviated from Sufficient Instructions/ required sufficient Notice for non counsel litigants? 2. Is it herein shown … | |
| 22-6173 | Steven D'Agostino v. Bunce Atkinson | Third Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy-trustee barton-doctrine chapter-7 chapter-7-bankruptcy conflict-of-interest prima-facie standing statutory-obligations trustee-handbook | 1) What is the significance and/or importance of the United States Trustee Office's Handbook for Chapter 7 Trustees (hereinafter "the Handbook")? A) … |
| 22-5944 | Charles L. Burgett v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-2000e employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie summary-judgment title-vii | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals applied the correct summary judgment standard on prima facie and on pretext in assessing a case of employment discrimi… |
| 21-1421 | Valerie Kline v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management | District of Columbia | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination fruit-of-poisonous-tree mcdonnell-douglas pretext prima-facie unlawful-detail | Whether an unlawful detail into a position prior to officially filling it is relevant to raise an inference of pretext, when the prima facie stage und… |
| 21-6659 | Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review | 1. Whether, under Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), a court may supply and consider potential race-neutral reasons for a prosecutor's peremp… |
| 21-6539 | In Re Kenny Blanc | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing | To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 … | |
| 21-6538 | In Re Kenny Blanc | 2021-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 collateral-review constitutional-law federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing | To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 … | |
| 21-6484 | Thomas Lee Battle v. California | California | 2021-12-01 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii | 1. Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prose… |
| 21-5824 | Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity | If an employee/plaintiff is a member of a racial majority (white female) is she legally considered to be viewed as an unprotected class, stated below,… |
| 21-359 | Flomo Tealeh v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-shifting employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case protected-activity title-vii workplace-harassment | 1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive that the standard for the second prong of a prima facie case of discrimination under the McDonne… |
| 21-5333 | Michael E. Harris v. Anthony Akidi | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-dismissal jury-demand jury-trial personal-injury prima-facie | 1. Did the United States court of appeals error and abuse its discretion, in dismissing the petitioner's prima facie personal injury, civil rights com… |
| 21-5070 | Calvin Bernhardt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability district-court-error eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate prima-facie prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in denying… |
| 20-8155 | Frederick Wayne Smith v. California | California | 2021-05-27 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions | Should, the. May 2, 1 995 0Kde.fi to Show Caute/PKlma Facie. cate; The W0I/ 05 201 8 SupeKloK CouKt WKlt of habeat coKput/PKlma facle showing of viol… |
| 20-8015 | Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii | 1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A PRIMA … |
| 20-7813 | Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-21 | Dismissed | IFP | aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law | 1. When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v… |
| 20-200 | Morgan McCoy v. Michael Bullock, et al. | Ohio | 2020-08-20 | Denied | 8th-amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process evidence landlord-tenant-law prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination selective-enforcement standing | 1. Does pretrial court dismissing prima facie case before its evidence filing deadline constitute R. 103(D) plain error in constitutional violation of… | |
| 19-888 | Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP | New York | 2020-01-16 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte | Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal when sua sponte and without notice to Petitioner, and w… | |
| 19-6897 | Obaydul Hoque Bhuiyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction plaintiff-burden prima-facie prima-facie-showing private-party-analogue standing statutory-interpretation | What prima facie showing is it necessary and sufficient for a plaintiff to make, in order to establish the existence of a private-party analogue suppo… |
| 19-6378 | Raymond Gentile v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution | Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 … |
| 19-6286 | Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing | 1) Whether a federal court adjudicating a motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60 may simply write off Petitioner's motion without any analysi… |
| 19-233 | Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii | The two questions presented are: 1. Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of… | |
| 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… |
| 19-83 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. | District of Columbia | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii | 1. How does the framework and prima facie prongs of the Supreme Court's precedent setting employment case, McDonnell Douglas vs. Green, apply in a Tit… |
| 19-49 | Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity | 1. Whether, in an FMLA wrongful discharge retaliation claim, the McDonnell Douglas three-prong analysis is appropriate, where the Circuit Courts have … |
| 18-8748 | Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-09 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination | 1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? 2. Whether lif… |
| 18-823 | ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations | Whether evidence of "secondary considerations" (e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented invention) is less important, functioning at … |
| 18-207 | George Duggan v. Department of Defense | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act | Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 does the Agency's… |
| 18-5152 | Rodney Howard v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination | 1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t… |