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Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5306 · judgment October 11, 2024


Certiorari denied · April 28, 2025
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

Qiu the accented U.S. citizen of origin of China applied for employment with Oldham. Principal Woosley held Qiu waiting to search for Qiu’s skills after the interview, having no questions about Qiu’s qualifications. Woosley kicked Qiu off waiting when annoyed by Qiu’s emails asking to be hired. Qiu sued Oldham under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on her race, color, and national origin. Qiu’s complaint covered the four elements of 411 U.S. at

  1. Oldham filed the motion to dismiss Qiu’s complaint. Qiu responded with the attachment of the email exchanges of Woosley and Qiu to support the facts in her complaint. The district court rejected Qiu’s evidence of the emails attached to her response. The district court dismissed Qiu’s complaint, and the circuit court affirmed the dismissal.

  2. Should the evidence attached to the response to the motion to dismiss be declined?

  3. Does the complaint meet the standard “state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face” when setting up the prima facie under 411 U.S. at 802?

  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
W. Cravens Priest III
English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 28 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 09 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/25/2025.
  3. Mar 24 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky to respond filed.
  4. Jan 28 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 24, 2025)