No. 25-7520October Term 2025Before Arguments
Terra Wargo, Petitioner v. MJR Partridge Creek Digital Cinema 14
from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Case status
- Current stage
- Before Arguments
- Latest event
- Accepted by the Court
- Decision timing
- No window until argument is scheduled.
- What it's about
from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Question presented
1. 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. 2. 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 . 3. Whether, after Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , a forced transfer is nonactionable whenever pay and benefits remain unchanged. 4. 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.
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit / Accepted by the Court
- Area
Supreme Court case awaiting argument
Timing
Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term
The Court granted review but has not yet scheduled oral argument. Once argued, the median case reaches a decision in 94 days. Nearly all cases are decided by the end of the term in which they are argued.
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Sep 1, 2026
- Method
- Methodology