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Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5368 · judgment December 23, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Bowling Green ignored Qiu’s application for its chemistry teaching open for which Qiu possessed the excellence of chemistry Praxis. Qiu sued Bowling Green under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on her race, color, and national origin. Qiu responded to the motion to dismiss with evidence. After the dismissal of her complaint, Qiu found the interviewed Salyer who failed chemistry Praxis heavily was white online. Qiu put her found in her 59(e) motion to alter the dismissal order. The district court denied Qiu’s 59(e) motion and dismissed the complaint. The 6th Circuit affirmed the dismissal. Question 1. Should a plaintiffs response to the motion to dismiss be converted to a summary motion when some of the evidence are “the matters outside the pleadings”? Question 2. Can a Rule 59(e) motion of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure function as a summary motion when setting up prima facie? Question 3. Can a sanction motion be denied based on other decisions instead of the facts and laws in the sanction motion? Question 4. Did the judges violate Qiu’s Constitutional right to due process and equal protection of the laws in Section 1 of Amendment XIV? Were the judges against the Rule of Law?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Wei Qiu
For respondent
Regina Abrams
English, Lucas, et al.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 05 2025Petition DENIED.
- Apr 16 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/2/2025.
- Apr 10 2025Waiver of right of respondent Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky to respond filed.
- Mar 26 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 5, 2025)