sex-discrimination

41 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram…
25-183 Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending CVSGRelisted (3) educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment…
25A5 Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix Question not identified.
24A1076 MaChelle Joseph v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-07 Presumed Complete canon-of-construction educational-institutions employment implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination title-ix Question not identified.
24-746 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix A university decision-maker admitted using 'sex' as one of the three factors in evaluating an accused student's credibility, resulting in expulsion. T…
24A539 Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete birth-certificate bostock-interpretation equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination transgender-rights Question not identified.
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 …
24-449 Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Jane Doe, by Next Friends and Parents Helen Doe and James Doe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-22 Pending Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (2) biological-sex constitutional-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation Whether Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act ("SWSA"), which preserves the traditional practice of excluding biological males from girls' and women's spo…
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.
24-90 William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status 1. Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria; and 2. Whether West Vir…
24A79 Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether the preliminary injunction issued by the district court, which enjoins the entire 2024 Title IX Rule, is overbroad and should be narrowed to a…
24A78 Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Question not identified.
24-43 West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Granted Amici (46)Response WaivedRelisted (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix 1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth. 2. Whet…
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Granted Amici (26)Relisted (3) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
23-1152 Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether if I didn't give consent for my case to be conducted by the magistrate Judge Kelly Pate. Rule 73. 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). A record must be made of…
23A728 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Question not identified.
23-836 Samer Ali-Hasan v. St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination termination title-vii wrongful-termination 1. Does an employer violate Title VII when it terminates a physician's employment based on an accusation of sex discrimination that the employer knows…
23-6207 Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel A). . . . Whether the Court aos denied Se + Maer Tutisdie~ Hon" proceedings due to otatolly Mckay sexh? | B). . . .Whebher Yro iadielmnent aos, orren…
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…
23-509 John Doe v. Rollins College Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix 1. Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits as to the proper test for sex discrimination under 20 U.S.C. § 1681 in Title IX of the Ed…
23A244 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination Question not identified.
22-1002 Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix This case presents two circuit splits: one involving a public university's obligation to balance the due process rights of a student accused of sexual…
22-972 Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether, considering the "cat's paw " employment theory in what circumstances, an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination in viola…
22-975 Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii I. Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex… constitutes prohibited employment discrimination "b…
22-896 The Ohio State University v. Steve Snyder-Hill, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discovery-rule educational-programs federal-financial-assistance private-right-of-action sex-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations title-ix Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activiti…
22-799 Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex.
22-93 Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal…
21-907 Kenda R. Kirby v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process educational-amendments non-discrimination retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination title-ix 1. Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of …
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…
20-654 Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University Second Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix 1. Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a "denied . . . benefit " to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Ed…
20-216 Prianka Bose v. Roberto de la Salud Bea, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Amici (1) academic-misconduct civil-rights due-process education educational-opportunity false-accusation gender-bias retaliation sex-discrimination title-ix Whether a school that expels a student based on charges and evidence motivated by sex bias denies that student educational opportunities "on the basis…
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…
19-1169 Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing 1. Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a juridical remedy. 2. Mr. Ybarra's Section 1983 cl…
19-6013 Otis A. Daniel v. T&M Protection Resources, LLC Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP at-will-employment civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-antidiscrimination-laws national-origin-discrimination protected-characteristics racial-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination sexual-orientation-discrimination workplace-harassment wrongful-termination (I). Is it lawful for an employer to intentionally terminate the employment of an "AT WILL" employee because he/she has filed or attempted to file a …
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…
18-8315 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5-usc-2302 age-discrimination civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee in-vitro-fertilization medical-leave probationary-employment sex-discrimination termination-rights Shall the Court immediately reinstate back to work a Federal employee who was fired for an attempt to get pregnant, for being discriminated against se…
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Under the Civil Rights Act, is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful "on the basis of sex," and/or "because of.. . sex," as held by the Second an…
18-658 Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (11) civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Boyertown Area School District by policy authorizes some transgender students to use high school locker rooms and restrooms that match their subjectiv…
18-305 Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of the…
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 …
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (13) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender 1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and in…