| 23-451 |
Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward |
Tennessee |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention |
Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme… |
| 23-320 |
Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'… |
| 22-6230 |
Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process |
Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe… |
| 21-7282 |
Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa |
Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice? |
| 21-6883 |
Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing |
Whether RLUIPA requires courts to evaluate claims under the 'compelling interest' test or the 'least restrictive means' test |
| 20-7028 |
Amos Mast, et al. v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2021-02-03 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
compelling-interest government-interest judicial-review least-restrictive-alternative religious-freedom rluipa strict-scrutiny |
When applying strict scrutiny under RLUIPA, can lower courts rely upon an admission that an interest is compelling generally, or must they require the… |
| 19-8695 |
Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (12)IFP |
compelling-interest execution execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-accommodation religious-adviser religious-exercise rluipa spiritual-aid |
Whether the State's policy of denying a religious adviser to a condemned prisoner during execution violates RLUIPA and the Free Exercise Clause |