racial-animus
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-397 | Delton York v. Scott Kupor, Director, Office of Personnel Management | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights employment-discrimination neutral-reason prima-facie-case racial-animus summary-judgment | Assuming the petitioner established a prima facie case of employment discrimination, if the respondent offers evidence of a neutral reason for its ref… |
| 24-6331 | Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights constitutional-law equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-animus | When a law is originally motivated by racial animus, must a court consider its racist origins when deciding whether it violates the equal protection c… |
| 24-261 | Ammar A. Idlibi v. Mary-Margret D. Burgdorff, Judge, Middlesex Judicial District, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-exception discrimination-claim judicial-immunity parental-rights racial-animus religious-discrimination | Whether there should be constitutional exceptions to the immunities that shield judges from discrimination claims in the administration of justice. |
| 23-7529 | Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review | Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law under Tolau v. Cott… |
| 23A951 | Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6804 | Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination | Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have "broad discretion" to refuse to … |
| 23-589 | Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. | Maryland | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law | This case presents a question more egregious than Hodel v. Irving, 481 U.S. 704 (1987); whether the Maryland Orphans' Court for Montgomery County viol… |
| 22-834 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel | In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), this Court again condemned the use of racial animus in the sexual assault trial of a Mexican man, … |
| 22-6395 | Bryan Wolfe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure | Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 21-7388 | Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas | Texas | 2022-03-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment | When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does … |
| 19-7503 | Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-6750 | Ronnie R. Ceasar v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct protected-class racial-animus | Public Issue Timely prosecution of cases by local district attorney. Lay and affect cause able cause No Preparation harm law-abiding citizens Appellan… |
| 19-330 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury | 1. Is it structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to "trial by an impartial jury" when the government expressly uses racial animus i… |
| 18-198 | Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law | Issue: The issue is not Fed. Rul. of Civ. Pro. 8(a); the issue is the plaintiff was not allowed to be the "master of the complaint" and his rights und… |