No. 24-5844

Kimberly Edelstein v. Max Edelstein

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2024-10-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights contract-law due-process free-exercise-clause neutral-principles religious-marriage
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Latest Conference: 2025-02-28 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Ohio courts improperly invalidated a Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah) by refusing to enforce religious marriage agreements and applying inconsistent legal principles

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Dees the Ohis court's decision to invalidate a dewish Ketubah as an unenforceable "promise to marry” and void as against public policy conflict with decisions of other state courts that have recognized religious marriage contracts as . valid and enforceable agreements, thereby creating a significant split among state courts on an important federal questions concerning religions Hberty and contract rights that sust be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court? 2. Should xeligious marriage contrarts, that protect women. of faith-based communities, be deemed valid under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, the Hberty and property protections of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and ) be anforceable under neutral principles of contract. Jaw consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Jones v. Wolf, 443 U.S. 595 (4979)? 3. Does the Ohio court's refasal to apply neutral principles of law to imterpret and enforce a Jewish Retubah conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Jones vy. Wolf, 443 US. 595 979), which held that courts. may resdlve dispntes involving religious entities by applying neutral principles of law without violating the Establishment Clause?

Docket Entries

2025-03-03
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2025.
2025-01-28
Petitioner complied with order of January 13, 2025.
2025-01-13
The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied. Petitioner is allowed until February 3, 2025, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
2024-12-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-11-20
Waiver of right of respondent Max Edelstein to respond filed.
2024-10-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 29, 2024)

Attorneys

Kimberly Edelstein
Kimberly Edelstein — Petitioner
Max Edelstein
Max Edelstein — Respondent