government-interest
7 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |