government-interest

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6392 Christopher Tyler Bray v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Pending IFP constitutional-law establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-interest religious-freedom What is the meaning of religion as it concerns the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, and what are the implicatio…
25-255 Dion Horton, et al. v. Bruce R. Beemer, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process government-interest judicial-finding liberty-deprivation morrissey-v-brewer procedural-safeguards Whether the Due Process Clause requires a judicial finding that depriving a person of physical liberty pending a probation-revocation hearing is neces…
21-6735 Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny Did the appellate court err in applying intermediate scrutiny to a content-based statute criminalizing photographs of children, and does the statute v…
21-850 Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection gender-classification gender-discrimination government-interest governmental-interest moral-sensibilities tailoring Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-bas…
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…
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest?
19-6735 Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have undermined the constitutional principles of the right to a public trial by adopting a test that requires a lesser governme…