My question is on employment discrimination that is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This issue is very personal to me because in 2001 I appealed my dismissed Title VII case Pro-Se to the United States Supreme Court. Based two previous Supreme Court rulings in Anderson v Libby Lobby, Inc.,477 US 242,255 (1986) and Reeves v Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc 530 U.S. 133 (2000) I should have survived the defendant’s summary judgment as a matter of law.

The district court should not have denied me a jury trial because I presented direct evidence that proved that several of the declarations filed in my case contained perjured explanations for the actions of New York State Department of Correctional Services personnel.

My question to you as an educated Harvard attorney what advice would you give me to nine years later that would give me some sort of peace and a sense of justice after such an emotional, financial, and spiritual defeat?

Vera Richardson

Houston, TX