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Wei-Ping Zeng v. Marshall University, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 20-1481 · judgment January 11, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 3, 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 the lower courts have departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to provide Petitioner the record on appeal (ROA), and this Court should exercise its supervisory power to order the lower courts to comply with Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP).

  2. Whether this Court should provide more definite guidelines to balance a court’s responsibility to determine discrimination by blatant disparate treatments of employees and avoidance to sit as a “super personnel department”.

  3. Whether an unauthorized warning of potential termination of employment instead of the termination itself is the adverse employment action for the purpose of determining unlawful retaliation.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Wei-Ping Zeng

For respondent
Brian Dale Morrison
Oxley Rich Sammons, PLLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 31 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Aug 22 2022
    Reply of petitioner Wei-Ping Zeng filed. (Distributed)
  4. Aug 08 2022
    Brief of respondent Marshall University, et al. in opposition filed. (Aug. 29, 2022)
  5. May 04 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 11, 2022)