sexual-orientation
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-142 | William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination | Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th… |
| 24-5814 | John Russell Howald v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits hate-crime sexual-orientation | Whether the Hate Crime Prevention Act as codified in 18 U.S.C. 249(a)(2), which prohibits the willful bodily injury to a person with the use of a fire… |
| 22-1217 | Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii | I. Whether the Petitioner has a claim pursuant to Title VII 42 U.S.C. § 2000e -2(a)(1) when he was terminated on the basis of his sexual orientation .… |
| 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… |
| 22-5531 | Patrick O. Christian v. Republican Party, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection majority-rule minority-protection minority-rights protected-class sexual-orientation | 1. When Democracy is defined as the "majority rules " does this indicate that the minority will legally be discriminated-against deprived, and/or c… |
| 21-8032 | Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation | Question not identified. |
| 20-7131 | Shean Elkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage-equality sexual-orientation | Question not identified. |
| 19-6479 | In Re Charles Russell Rhines | 2019-11-01 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation | Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst… | |
| 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… |