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Gilmore v. Walmart
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Bridget Gilmore asked the Supreme Court to review her claims that the Fifth Circuit mishandled her appeal in a Title VII case against Walmart and that her lawyer’s abandonment justified reopening the judgment.
- Who it affects
- The Supreme Court’s refusal ended Gilmore’s request for review in this proceeding without deciding whether the Fifth Circuit handled her claims properly.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
The Court refused to hear the case (denied review), so it did not decide whether her claims were correct.
Gilmore argued that her lawyer abandoned her and that this justified reopening the judgment.
The underlying case was a Title VII civil-rights dispute between Gilmore and Walmart.
Question presented
1. Whether a federal appellate court violates procedural due process and structural integrity when administrative personnel exceed their ministerial authority under Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 25 and 27 by retroactively altering and backdating an official electronic docket, thereby artificially defeating the statutory tolling effects of a pro se litigant ’ s timely post-judgment motions under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4. 2. Whether a federal appellate court denies procedural due process under Mathews v. Eldridge and departs from the accepted course of judicial proceedings by affirming a summary dismissal of Title VII civil rights claims based exclusively upon unauthenticated, extra-record submissions, while completely suppressing a pro se litigant ’ s certified Record on Appeal — which contained exculpatory witness and law enforcement records — in violation of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10. 3. Whether gross attorney abandonment and constructive fraud constitute "extraordinary circumstances" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), severing the principal agent relationship and entitling an innocent, self-represented litigant to relief from judgment, an issue over which the federal circuits are deeply divided.
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