No. 24-996

Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2025-03-19
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity EmploymentDiscrimina
Latest Conference: 2025-06-26 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protected as found by six other circuits; and whether lower courts can make factual determinations about the nature of a religious belief on a motion to dismiss

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

are: 1. Under Title VII, is an employee’s religious belief left unprotected if a court determines such a belief would create a “blanket privilege” because the belief might apply broadly to other employment situations, or is an employee’s religious belief broadly protected in the employment setting a s found by six other circuits? 2. Are lower courts permitted to make a factual determination as to w hether a professed religious belief supported by citations to religious materials is a personal or medical belief as opposed to an avowed religious belief on a motion to dismiss under FRCP 12(b)(6) ?

Docket Entries

2025-06-30
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-18
Reply of Tammy M. Harvey, et al. submitted.
2025-06-18
2025-06-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
2025-05-27
Brief of Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. in opposition submitted.
2025-05-27
Brief of respondent Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. in opposition filed.
2025-04-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 28, 2025.
2025-04-10
Motion of Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. for an extension of time submitted.
2025-04-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 28, 2025 to May 28, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-03-27
Response Requested. (Due April 28, 2025)
2025-03-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
2025-03-20
Waiver of right of respondent Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. to respond filed.
2025-03-17

Attorneys

Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.
Karl Stewart MyersStevens & Lee, P.C., Respondent
Tammy M. Harvey, et al.
Gary Eugene JungeSchmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Petitioner