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William Maner v. Dignity Health, fka Catholic Healthcare West

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-17159 · judgment August 20, 2021

Certiorari denied · January 24, 2022

Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

) Where an employer allows workplace activities of ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of favoritism to occur, such as job hiring,‘job retention, job-perks, career advancement, or other lucrative employment-related favoritism by a Boss (or Supervisor, or Manager, or similarly situated management-level employee) having a romantic penchant toward one “favored” sub-ordinate employee of a given gender, which is the same gender also preferred by the management-level employee with regard to sexual, relationship, or romantic considerations, and where the employer allows such ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of activities to persist in the workplace at the expense of, or at the exclusion of, other sub ordinate employees whose gender is opposite to that gender of the favored sub-ordinate employee, do such activities constitute a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88-352) (Title VII), as amended, with regard to discrimination against employees having gender (sex) opposite to that of the favored sub-ordinate employee? 2.) Did the District Court in this case err in its granting of Summary Judgement? 3.) Did the Appellate Court in this case err in its upholding of the District Court’s granting of Summary Judgement? 4.) Should this case be remanded back to the District Court for trial?

For petitioner
William L. Maner

For respondent
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Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Jan 24 2022
Petition DENIED.
Jan 05 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/21/2022.
Nov 12 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 20, 2021)
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