| 25-581 |
St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct |
Colorado's so-called universal preschool program pays for families to send their children to the preschool of their choice, public or private. To part… |
| 25-113 |
Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny |
Petitioners Breanna Renteria and Laura Smith joined a ministry with fellow Christian believers to share healthcare costs. Petitioners' religious belie… |
| 24-319 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Adrienne A. Harris, Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
2024-09-20 |
GVR |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
employment-division-v-smith first-amendment neutrality-test religious-exemption religious-organizations strict-scrutiny |
In 2017, New York promulgated a regulation mandating that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 52.1… |
| 22-942 |
Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) |
counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty |
Brian Tingley is a licensed marriage and family counselor who helps clients with various issues, including sexuality and gender identity. A practicing… |
| 22-204 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2022-09-07 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights custom-art due-process employment-division employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech masterpiece-cakeshop religious-freedom religious-hostility |
1. Whether, under Masterpiece, the Oregon Court of Appeals should have entered judgment for Petitioners after finding that Respondent had demonstrated… |
| 21-1143 |
Dr. A., et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Relisted (10) |
administrative-rule covid-19 covid-vaccine-mandate employment-division-v-smith free-exercise free-exercise-clause medical-exemption religious-exemption secular-conduct vaccine-mandate |
Using its emergency regulatory powers, New York has imposed a COVID vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, but provided no religious exemption. Worker… |
| 20-1346 |
Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine |
First Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order |
(1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against houses of worship by restricting the … |
| 19-1135 |
Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton |
California |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (7) |
civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act |
(1) Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical… |
| 19-123 |
Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (87)Relisted (7) |
circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim |
| 19-66 |
George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. |
Idaho |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) |
| 18A1256 |
George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. |
Idaho |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-division-v-smith free-exercise-clause generally-applicable-law neutral-law religious-exemption social-security-number |
Whether the Free Exercise Clause requires an exemption from a neutral and generally applicable law that conflicts with a sincerely held religious beli… |
| 18-1151 |
St. Augustine School, et al. v. Carolyn Stanford Taylor, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
church-autonomy denominational-affiliation employment-division-v-smith faith-tradition free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-benefits religion-clauses religious-adherent religious-autonomy religious-liberty trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-v-comer |
Whether the Free Exercise Clause prohibits the government from requiring a religious adherent to choose between following his or her faith tradition a… |
| 18-547 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2018-10-26 |
GVR |
Amici (10)Relisted (13) |
commercial-art compelled-speech employment-division-v-smith expressive-conduct first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hybrid-rights public-accommodations religious-liberty |
Whether Oregon violated the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment by compelling the Kleins to design and create a custom weddin… |