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25-1014 Laith Saud v. DePaul University Seventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending adverse-employment-action but-for-causation pretext race-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix-investigation 1. Whether a discriminatory Title IX investigation— whose findings are relied upon by a decisionmaker to impose concrete employment consequences—can …
25-945 Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation Eighth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment 1. Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required …
25-938 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination Whether the State's considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used…
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.
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…
25-5929 Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o…
25-5665 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-09-17 Denied Amici (1)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire 1. Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equ…
25-5529 Billy Torain v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process federal-injunction race-discrimination 1. Whether a state civil rights agency violates the Due Process Clause, consistent with Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co., 455 U.S. 422 (1982), when it ass…
25A258 Tonnesha Kidd v. Lourdes Medical Center at Burlington, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete employment-law pro-se-litigation race-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment third-circuit Question not identified.
25-47 Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii A. Did the courts below properly apply SCDOT zero tolerance harassment policies. Title VII , EPA, ADE A, ADA, EEOC harassment & hostile work environme…
24-1301 Calvin Allen, Sr., et al. v. Seth Gomez, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response Waived dismissal-judgment public-accommodation race-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 section-1985 Whether Eighth Circuit erred in holding and affirming dismissal judgment overlooking District Court manifested errors and abuses of discretion entered…
24-7317 Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied IFP court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal 1. IS IT REVERSIBLE ERROR FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO TREAT OPPOSING PARTIES (ONE A BLACK MALE ATTORNEY AND THE OTHER A WHITE MALE ATTOR…
24-7279 Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination dart & Yace U°» sparse V»ave aaces-Vcws become a- clV\2.er\ aat-j NlaV\oaa\ Pedeva\ 0>ove.\rttVAen-V 9±. 2. a Kace ol^ev becoK\a<j W\Yvc.V\ ~laa\ Vs…
24-811 Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education Sixth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Can facts be removed from a summary motion under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? 2. Did the three judges of the instant case and …
24-638 Mehdi Moini v. Ellen M. Granberg, in Her Official Capacity as President of George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-12-11 Denied Response Waived academic-tenure employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation-theory section-1981 similarly-situated Under §1981, is a Middle-Eastern Iranian a race? What evidence or characteristics does an appellant need to provide to prove his race? How to determin…
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 …
24-457 Bindya H. S. B. Singh v. Santa Clara County, California California 2024-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights fair-trial hipaa-violation race-discrimination securities-exchange whistleblower-rights Does a Citizen Whistleblower lose the Constitutional right to a fair trial under Whistleblower claim, that reports multiple concerns of illegal activi…
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination 1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invok…
23-1182 Kenneth Jones v. County of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equitable-tolling excessive-force law-enforcement race-discrimination standing The grant of orders, in favor of the Respondents' motions to dismiss, the District Curt and the Appeals Court granted a dismissal of the above-entitle…
23-7362 Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State District of Columbia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S…
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 Question not identified.
23-911 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution permit race retaliation claims?
23-6665 Ole Hougen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass…
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent In Davis v. Passman, 442 U.S. 228 (1979) and Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court made clear that claims for gender discrimination and cla…
23-630 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go …
23-6221 Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23A367 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination Question not identified.
23-246 Donivon Craig Tingle v. Florida Department of Health Florida 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection governmental-action inherent-powers medical-marijuana pigford-v-glickman race-discrimination strict-scrutiny 1. Whether the actions of Florida, through its legislative and executive branches in passing, implementing, and enforcing the Rule and the Statute con…
23A58 Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii Question not identified.
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats…
22-6996 Candace Searcy v. Orchard National Title Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-rights default-judgment discrimination due-process housing housing-discrimination human-rights procedural-rules race-discrimination texas-rules-of-civil-procedure Why am I being denied housing because of my race being an African American? The courts are violating H.R.3772 - Housing Is a Human Right Act of 2021 …
22-6775 Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge.
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…
22-5651 In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El 2022-09-22 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Question not identified.
22-231 Artur Davis v. Legal Services Alabama, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights civil-rights-act employer-actions employment-discrimination employment-terms pay race-discrimination section-1981 suspension title-vii Do Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination as to all "terms," "conditions," or "privileges" of employment, or are they limited to "signific…
22-5163 Diann Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in…
22-5031 Thomas Sawyer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-services race-discrimination WHETHER ETTONER'S CONICTON VOLATES THE FIT FIFTH AMD FOURTEENTHENMENT OF THE UTIF THE NTE E IN THE BSTKE COURT HAS BEEN ININK A RACAL DESTGNATOR OR MI…
21-1597 Seyed Mohsen Sharifi Takieh v. Banner Health, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied 12(b)(6)-motion civil-rights discrimination due-process medical-board-investigation pleading-standards race-discrimination race-neutral-explanation standing summary-judgment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the District Court properly incorporated the Ruling in the State Court Injunction Action on a 12(b)(6…
21-7302 Christian Peterson v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson.
21-1051 Mengyang Li v. Shepherd University President's Office West Virginia 2022-01-28 Denied Response Waived academic-promotion age-discrimination national-origin-discrimination professional-advancement promotion race-discrimination racial-discrimination scientific-contributions scientific-research teaching-university It is a practice of Age Discrimination in deeming an old scientist (Petitioner)'s very significant scientific contributions prior to his changing care…
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Breached contract of employment violated by defendant PeopleReady, Trueblue "2" National, and "1 Local Background Information reported to Command Acti…
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit 1. Is a statement by the prosecutor that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one Af…
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas 2021-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
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…
21-6308 Iona Sanders v. Christwood Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-seven civil-rights covid-19 due-process jury-trial medical-records-privacy pandemic-jury-trial race-discrimination recusal-motion standing summary-judgment 1. Whether a pandemic overrides Amendment VII, which states, "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, " when the district court judge stated, "…
21-5850 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination 1. Whether, and in what circumstances, this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary (repugnant) to Federal law and DVA Policy & Proc…
21-90 Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether under the 14th amendment and in addition to title 7 and 42 U.S.C.§200e-16(a) (race, color, religion, sex or national origin) a claim on, an…
21-74 Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii 1. Whether the six factors set forth in Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003), addressing whether director-shareho…
20-8410 Brenda Ford White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctor…
20-898 Coneisha L. Sherrod v. United Way Worldwide Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act employment employment-contract indirect-evidence interference non-contracting-party pleading race-discrimination section-1981 (1) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981") prohibits a non-contracting party from interfering with person's contract,…
20-6386 James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada Nevada 2020-11-19 Denied IFP batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin…
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination 1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory? 2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe…
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…
20-213 Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii 1. Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against em ployment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encomp…
20-185 Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland Maryland 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-appointment judicial-review judicial-selection maryland-law race-discrimination standing Was the United States Constitution violated when the highest court in Maryland supported the lower courts' decisions to [i] apply federal statutory di…
20-95 Carolyn Hicks-Washington v. The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination institutional-racism judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct race-discrimination 1. Do the actions of federal judges Federico A. Moreno, Barry S. Seltzer and various appellate court judges in the Eleventh Circuit constitute a consp…
19-1379 Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey Sixth Circuit 2020-06-16 Dismissed Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race-related reasons to break off the investigat…
19-8458 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Phillip Jordan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection public-accommodations race-discrimination standing WHETHER HAS PETITIONER SUFFERED INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION BASED UPON HIS CRIMINAL RECORD and/OR; WHETHER ACTING UNDER STATE LAW, COLOR OF DURHAM WHE…
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…
19-8115 Brenda R. White v. EDS Care Management, LLC, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-capacity medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctor…
19-8114 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claim standing 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiffs race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors…
19-817 Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi…
19-6219 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing 1. Is it legally sound, to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings, although the dejure Jim Crow laws, which enabled and legalized segregation w…
18-9628 Ella W. Horn v. CRC Health Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection race-discrimination retaliation section-1981 sexual-harassment Whether the District court and Ninth Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the due process clause for equal protection by failing to …
18-1426 Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination 1. Has the McDonnell Douglas framework for determining workplace discrimination been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied …
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire "WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE…
18-1399 Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association Ohio 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas…
18-9018 Jupiter Dennell Wilson, Sr. v. City of Chesapeake, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-04-29 Granted IFP age-discrimination age-retaliation certiorari-review circuit-court-conflict civil-rights fraud fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-record judicial-discretion race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Whether the United States Supreme Court with its judicial discretion is able to affirm the Fourth Circuit's Certification of this consolidated case("N…
18-1171 Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing 1. Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation? 2. Can a plaintiff state a plausible claim fo…
18-7055 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, …
18-6690 Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination Petitioner filed an early lawsuit for employment discrimination in 2017. The District Court agreed that Petitioner never received the Magistrate order…
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation 1. WHETHER A FEDERAL HABEAS COURT MAY REEXAMINE A STATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF STATE LAW WHEN IT IS AN OBVIOUS SUBTERFUGE TO EVADE CONSIDERATION OF…
18-94 Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discrimina…
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 …
18-9 Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation WHETHER THIS COURT MUST APPLY STRICT SCRUTINY IN REVIEWING THE LOWER COURTS' DECISIONS AFTER DEVIATING FROM APPLICABLE CASE AND STATUTORY LAW AND DISM…