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Julian Francis Bates v. General Motors, LLC, dba GM
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-2004 · judgment May 28, 2025
Question presented
Can a party fail to cooperate in discovery, disobey court rules, interrupt the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green burden-shifting evidence approach and then be granted summary judgement? Was a General Motors’ women’s only employee resource group an unlawful D.E.I. initiative, policy, program, or practice that involved General Motors taking a negative employment action motivated by Julian Bates’ gender or sex as a man?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Julian Francis Bates
For respondent
Daniel L. Villaire
Ogletree Deakins
Case
Subject area
Civil Rights (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Sep 10 2026Case considered closed.
- Mar 23 2026The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied. Petitioner is allowed until April 13, 2026, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
- Mar 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Feb 20 2026Waiver of right of respondent General Motors, LLC to respond filed.
- Aug 26 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 17, 2026)