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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a petition under 3,000 words.
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
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Aug 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 17 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 22, 2026)