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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. 24-5364 · 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

Wei Qiu the U. S. citizen of Chinese race applied for three chemistry positions with Oldham in 2020 and 2021. Principal Moore completely and absolutely ignored Qiu the excellent applicant. Qiu sued Oldham under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on her race, color, and national origin. Qiu alleged that Moore ignored the excellent applicant Qiu because he discriminated against Qiu as Chinese to extreme in her complaint. Qiu alleged Moore directly violated Title VII. Oldham filed the motion to dismiss Qiu’s complaint. Qiu attached the evidence which proved all the facts in her complaint to respond to the motion to dismiss. The district court rejected Qiu’s evidence attached to her response to the motion to dismiss, and the district court dismissed Qiu’s complaint. The circuit court affirmed the dismissal.

  1. Can a complaint allege direct violation of Title VII?

  2. Should the case go back to the district court to discover the hiring information the employer knows but the job applicant does not?

  3. Should a plaintiffs proof of the facts in his complaint in his response to the motion to dismiss be considered?

  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. Feb 10 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 24, 2025)