| 23-1030 |
Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. |
Mississippi |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing |
Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput… |
| 23A639 |
Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. |
Mississippi |
2024-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
church-governance denominational-dispute ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment hierarchical-church property-control |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1253 |
Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom |
Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of "neutral principles," a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the… |
| 19-158 |
Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference |
This case presents two important questions
concerning the First Amendment's protection of
churches against the power of the state. A disaffected
facti… |
| 19-40 |
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor |
California |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice |
For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness… |
| 18-125 |
Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine |
Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.… |