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Terra Wargo v. MJR Partridge Creek Digital Cinema 14
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 25-1143 · judgment November 25, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether a court may defeat a Title VII hostile work environment claim on summary judgment by parsing the record incident by incident instead of evaluating the totality of the circumstances.
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Whether a Title VII disparate treatment claim may be defeated at the prima facie stage by treating comparator evidence as an inflexible prerequisite under McDonnell Douglas.
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Whether, after Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, a forced transfer is nonactionable whenever pay and benefits remain unchanged.
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Whether Title VII retaliation protection covers internal reporting, advocacy for coworkers, and related opposition when the employer fires the employee for that speech and assistance.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Carla Dorsey Aikens
Carla D. Aikens, PLC
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jul 16 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Mar 30 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 6, 2026)