Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, 2024 U.S. LEXIS 1816 (S. Ct. April 17, 2024) (Kagan, J.). Sergeant Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow maintains that her employer, the St. Louis Police Department, transferred her from one job to another because she is a woman. She sued the City of St. Louis under Title VII, alleging that she […]

Lindke v. Freed, 218 L. Ed. 2d 121 (March 15, 2024) (Barrett, J.). Like millions of Americans, James Freed maintained a Facebook account on which he posted about a wide range of topics, including his family and his job. Like most of those Americans, Freed occasionally received unwelcome comments on his posts. In response, Freed […]

Roberts v. Lau, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 764, 2024 WL 120177 (3d Cir. January 11, 2024) (Montgomery-Reeves, C.J.). Larry Trent Roberts spent 13 years in prison for a murder that he did not commit. After being exonerated, Roberts sued several state actors involved in obtaining his wrongful conviction, including Assistant District Attorney John C. Baer. […]

Dep’t of Corr. v. Lynn, 2023 Pa. LEXIS 1694, 2023 WL 8723690 (S. Ct. December 19, 2023) (Wecht, J.). This case involves an arcane and convoluted intersection of two statutes related to public employment. The Civil Service Reform Act (“CSRA”) establishes and governs the classified service, which is a merit-based system of public employment, and […]

Thomas v. City of Harrisburg, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 32207 (3d Cir. December 6, 2023) (Roth, C.J.). Sherelle Thomas sued the City of Harrisburg; PrimeCare Medical, Inc.; and several individual law enforcement officers (the Officers) on behalf of her decedent relative, alleging that defendants failed both to render medical care and to intervene to prevent […]

Davis v. Wigen, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 20133 (3d Cir. August 4, 2023) (Smith, C.J.) Plaintiff-Appellants are a former federal inmate, Brian Davis, and his fiancée, Fredricka Beckford. Davis served four years of his sentence at Moshannon Valley Correctional Center, a private prison that primarily houses alien inmates. During that time, he submitted a request […]

Mervilus v. Union Cnty., 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 17760 (3d Cir. July 13, 2023). Emmanuel Mervilus sued Detective John Kaminskas for fabricating polygraph evidence and Kaminskas’s supervisors for failing to train or supervise his polygraph work. We decide two principal questions. First, did Mervilus introduce sufficient evidence to try his fabrication-of-evidence claim against Kaminskas? We […]

Groff v. DeJoy, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2790 (S. Ct. June 29, 2023) (Alito, J.) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to accommodate the religious practice of their employees unless doing so would impose an “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. […]