religious-accommodation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A624 | Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems | Second Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Application | employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii | Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state laws that conflict with Title VII's religious accommodation requirements | |
| 25-5966 | Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii | Whether employers can demand statements of apostasy and restrict religious communication under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and whether p… |
| 25-5663 | Brahim Boumakh v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations employment-discrimination jury-trial procedural-technicalities religious-accommodation | Whether a United States District Court judge may dismiss a civil rights employment discrimination case on procedural technicalities without granting: … |
| 24-1015 | John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Pending | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may serve … |
| 24-996 | Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii | Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protec… |
| 24A621 | Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida | Florida | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise prison-rights religious-accommodation spiritual-advisor | Whether a state prison's denial of religious accommodation for an inmate's spiritual advisor during execution violates the First Amendment's Free Exer… | |
| 24-6169 | Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim first-amendment free-exercise prisoner-rights religious-accommodation | Whether a Virginia prisoner's First Amendment free exercise claim was improperly dismissed by lower courts when he was denied religious accommodations |
| 24-359 | Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii | Whether the Texas Workforce Commission's sovereign immunity bars a Title VII religious accommodation claim and violates due process and equal protecti… | |
| 24-48 | Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship | Does an employer violate Title VII when it fails to hire a person because his sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit him from agreeing to recognize… | |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… | |
| 22-7780 | John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al. | Washington | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | Whether prison officials can require prisoners to show centrality in religious exercise, and whether prison officials can regulate prisoners' sincerit… |
| 22-7651 | Lily Cassandra Alphonsis v. Joel Garnica, Deputy, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force hijab-ban prison-administration religious-accommodation religious-freedom rluipa | Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons was the least restrictive means of ensuring effective pr… |
| 22-174 | Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Third Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Judgment Issued | Amici (57)Relisted (2) | civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the Court should disapprove the Hardison test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations |
| 22-108 | Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secular a… |
| 22-14 | Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy | Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was burden… |
| 21-8113 | Toya Gibson v. Wayfair, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation genetic-information-discrimination genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act religious-accommodation religious-discrimination wrongful-termination | Whether the adverse employment action of wrongful termination in response to a dental disability, the use of genetic information to deny future FMLA l… |
| 21-717 | John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii | Whether a state governor's order mandating that private healthcare employers, on penalty of revocation of their business licenses, terminate their hea… |
| 21-5643 | Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii | Can an employer justify zero accountability for wrongful employee discrimination with a federal policy or statute, as a loophole to pressure an employ… |
| 20-8473 | Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii | Whether the Plaintiff was provided notice timely of the Summary Judgement ruling? |
| 19-1461 | Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (13) | civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an 'undue hardship' under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-1388 | Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) | civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an 'undue hardship' in accommodating an emp… |
| 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 |
| 18A1334 | Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden | Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act requires a prisoner to demonstrate severe financial hardship to establish a substanti… | |
| 18-8615 | In Re Patrick Henry Murphy | 2019-03-28 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure | Whether the Constitution or federal statutory law requires that members of all faiths be permitted to be accompanied in the execution chamber by a min… | |
| 18-349 | Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se… |
| 18-5055 | Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings | Whether the petitioner's free exercise rights were violated when prison officials refused to accommodate his religious dietary requirements |