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Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-10929 · judgment October 25, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 11, 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

  1. Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication when he accepted information from an unnamed person other then the Plaintiff and Defendant’s Counsel, so to use and intimidate the Plaintiff in removing certain claims from compliant, and should it be grounds to have case vacated and remanded?

  2. Whether a Judge can disregard established Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, specifically FRCP 56a, to grant summary judgment when there are still numerous genuine disputes to material facts remaining which are unresolved?

  3. Whether documents that show inconsistencies, contradictions, policy violations, a declaration statement, and also a sworn affidavit that an employer made statements that employees are valuable based on physical characteristic, specifically race and sex considered direct evidences and does it also show pretext?

  4. Whether a plaintiff have made a prima facie case concerning employment discrimination when she’s (1) a member of a protected class; (2) was qualified for the position sought; (3) was rejected for the position; and (4) the employer promoted someone outside of her protected class?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Reshawn Armstrong

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 11 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 21 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
  3. Sep 14 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Garland, Att'y Gen. to respond filed.
  4. Apr 11 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 15, 2022)