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25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth…
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.
24-1087 David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response Waived disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a "no state action" defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa…
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…
24-5511 Jane Doe v. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Second Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP contract-law deliberate-indifference federal-funding pro-se-representation sexual-harassment title-ix Q1: Does it amount to deliberate indifference under Title IX when a recipient (a) fraudulently tailor sexual assault case outcome to secure federal fu…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix 1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal …
24-88 John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix 1. Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits …
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.
24-44 West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority? Is private industry aggrieved by a baseless…
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…
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing 1. Whether the lower court rehed on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender d…
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.
23-812 Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown Ninth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process educational-institution off-campus-conduct party-presentation-principle student-discipline student-harassment substantial-control title-ix 1. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides that "[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participa…
23A553 Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete disciplinary-authority educational-institution off-campus student-harassment substantial-control title-ix Question not identified.
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…
23-464 Matthew Boermeester v. Ainsley Carry, et al. California 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation cross-examination due-process educational-discipline fair-process student-rights title-ix witness-credibility Whether when an educational institution that is a recipient of Federal funds seeks to impose a lengthy suspension or expulsion on a student for allege…
23-392 Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause dictate a single national policy that prohibits local schools from maintaining separate bathrooms base…
23-5650 Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process national-security public-interest rule-of-law standing title-ix whistleblower-protection Whether the illegal denial of 'Due Process ' to Petitioner and the harm being persistently inflicted upon him, violates the rights promised by the U.…
23-332 Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process peer-harassment school-liability standing summary-judgment title-ix Since its landmark decision in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999), the Court has not provided school districts with any gu…
23A176 Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing davis-standard deliberate-indifference school-district-liability student-sexual-harassment title-ix 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…
22-897 The Ohio State University v. Edward Gonzales, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process education-amendments education-law injury-accrual standing statute-of-limitations title-ix university-liability Whether, or to what extent, a claim under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688, accrues after the date on which the al…
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…
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii 1. Is it an important federal question of law for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether U.S. Courts of Appeal should be permitted to issue "NOT P…
22-6282 Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women In the matter of United State v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) the Violence Against Women Act civil remedy was invalidated. In March of 2022 the Viole…
22-423 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, dba Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools v. John Doe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived actionable-harassment actual-knowledge civil-rights deliberate-indifference peer-harassment peer-on-peer-harassment school-district-liability school-liability title-ix 1. In a peer-on-peer harassment Title IX claim, under what circumstances can a school district be liable when a plaintiff relies on the harassment of …
22-123 University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix Can schools be held liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified that it happened?
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…
21-1506 Christine M. Owen v. Liberty University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-funding institutional-accountability public-private title-ix Title IX is a federal civil rights law that only applies to colleges and universities who voluntarily choose to seek and accept federal funding in ord…
21-7208 Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix [This Court and circuits have agreed: plaintiffs demonstrated triable issues for a jury on review of similar facts and issues under Title IX, See Davi…
21-1046 Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University Second Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights discrimination legal-review membership-selection race sex standing title-ix title-vi The New York University Law Review is engaging in illegal race and sex discrimination when selecting articles for publication, as it asks authors to i…
21-968 Fairfax County School Board v. Jane Doe Fourth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (4) actual-knowledge civil-rights damages deliberate-indifference due-process funding-recipient spending-clause student-harassment title-ix 1. Whether a funding recipient may be liable in damages in a private action under Davis when the recipient's response did not itself cause any harassm…
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 …
21-656 John Oirya v. Brigham Young University Tenth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix 1. Should this Court amend its holding in Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565, 579 (1975), and require federal courts to review the disciplinary decision of a…
21-84 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2), an entity that seeks to intervene as of right must establish that none of the existing parties "adequa…
20-1769 Cheryl Fritze v. Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights education off-campus off-campus-internship public-body sexual-harassment student-intern title-ix whistle-blower I. Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 affords a student intern the same legal protection against sexual harassment during an off…
20-1715 Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix 1. The jury was told that for petitioner to prove her claim of retaliation, she must show she was terminated "solely as a consequence" of her protecte…
20-1163 Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm Fourth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Amici (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require school s to let transgender students use multi user restrooms designated for the opposite biologi…
20-1128 Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec…
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings 1. Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving, on the one hand, Doe v. Purdue , 928 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J.), Doe v. Univers…
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…
20-494 The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College v. Stephen M. Gruver, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived article-i-spending-power article-one-powers civil-damages civil-rights-remedies-equalization-act eleventh-amendment federal-funds sovereign-immunity spending-power title-ix 1. Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted ag…
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…
20-62 Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation 1. Whether parents surrender their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children by enrolling them in public school so that a school di…
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p…
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…
19-927 Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") to provide a remedy to students attending publicly funded educational instit…
19-509 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix 1. Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment. 2. Whether a v…
19-274 Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness Petitioner, Dr. Teresa Buchanan, was terminated from her tenured position at Louisiana State University under the school's sexual harassment policies.…
19-166 Matthew J. Rosenwasser v. Fordham University, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-funding statute-of-limitations title-ix university university-liability When a federally-funded university consistently, deliberately and intentionally denies a Title IX investigation, the Statute of Limitations for Title …
18-1463 Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University Eighth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix 1. Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the in…
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix I. Did the NH District Court abuse its discretion in dismissing a proper Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, when it incorrectly claimed a "scoured"…
18-8438 Abdul Cole v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability IM asking the Court to over look My Case, and I'm hoping oCan be dismissed. it Will the outCome of the Writ of Certiorari affect My
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…
18-6200 Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Uzoechi v. David Wilson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process emotional-distress false-conviction intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress malicious-prosecution title-ix Did the State of Maryland intentionally inflict emotional distress on Emmanuel C Uzoechi, and was Emmanuel C Uzoechi Maliciously prosecuted? Did Morg…
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…