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Emily Laughlin v. Miami-Dade County, Florida

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-13284 · judgment December 15, 2025

2%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 2%

Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether federal courts may require discrimination plaintiffs to establish pretext to survive summary judgment (under McDonnell Douglas or otherwise) when neither Rule 56 nor the governing discrimination statutes imposes a pretext requirement, and Rule 56 is intended to operate trans-substantively across all civil actions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Cameron Lee Atkinson
Atkinson Law, LLC

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 05 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Jun 17 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 22, 2026)
    PetitionCertificate of Word Count