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Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 22-11067 · judgment November 2, 2023
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, counsel who has filed here before, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.
Questions presented
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Are employer statements on religious discrimination that are included in the complaint and admitted in the answer binding judicial admissions in the de novo review of a federal employee’s Title VII religious discrimination claim?
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Is a Final Agency Decision that was not vacated competent evidence in the de novo review of a federal employee’s Title VII religious discrimination/hostile work environment claim?
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As “[t]he loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury” and as “[Title VII] gives [religious practices] favored treatment”, can discrimination or harassment of a federal employee based on religion be considered “the ordinary tribulations of the workplace”?
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Was the law prohibiting religious discrimination in the workplace clearly established in 2013 to preclude qualified immunity as a defense to a claim for damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?
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Is qualified immunity a defense to a claim for equitable relief under Title VII or under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?
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Is a sanction that abridges substantive rights for a non-willful violation of a local rule proper under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 83(a)(2).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Thomas Boyd Cowart
Wasoff & Cowart, PLLC
For respondent
Debra S. Edmondson
The Edmondson Law Firm, PLLC
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Orders
Order list, April 15, 2024 · Certiorari denied
Order list, June 10, 2024 · Rehearing denied
Proceedings
- Jun 10 2024Rehearing DENIED.
- May 21 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2024.
- May 10 2024Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Apr 15 2024Petition DENIED.
- Apr 01 2024Waiver of right of respondent William Onuh, in his personal capacity to respond filed.
- Mar 20 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
- Mar 06 2024Waiver of right of respondent Garland, Att'y Gen., et al. to respond filed.
- Jan 30 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 6, 2024)