No. 25-190

John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-08-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw SocialSecurity Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the removal of an irreplaceable religious resource from a cemetery injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant and whether symbolic banishment and stigmatic proclamation by Congress constitutes a Bill of Attainder that injures descendants

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the removal from a cemetery of an irreplaceable religious resource memorializing the dead, leaving behind an empty stone base, injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant. 2. Whether, if symbolic banishment and stigmatic proclamation for an unadjudicated crime by Congress are punishments constituting a Bill of Attainder, the descendants of attainted dead may be injured through defamatory stigmatization, including of their mourning practices.

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-09-02
Waiver of right of respondent Hegseth, Sec. of Defense, et al. to respond filed.
2025-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 17, 2025)

Attorneys

Hegseth, Sec. of Defense, et al.
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
John Patrick Moran
John Patrick Moran — Petitioner