religious-beliefs

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-665 Tina Goede v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process employment-policy first-amendment free-speech philosophical-choice religious-beliefs religious-sincerity state-court-review thomas-v-review-board unemployment-benefits Can a state deny unemployment benefits to an applicant whose religious beliefs are independently sufficient to cause her refusal to follow an employer…
23-5669 Steven Grimm v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for compass…
23-203 Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney Missouri 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (9) batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors
22-951 Jane Doe No. 1, et al. v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived abortion abortion-rights constitutional-law dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson first-amendment free-exercise free-speech medical-protocols religious-beliefs Whether Indiana's laws prohibiting standard medical disposition of embryonic tissue from lawful abortion procedures violate the Free Exercise and Free…
22-6584 Meghan M. Kelly v. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Third Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection reciprocal-discipline religious-beliefs self-incrimination standing whether-the-third-circuit's-rule-r.a-d-e.-16-violates-equal-protections
21-476 303 Creative LLC, et al. v. Aubrey Elenis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-28 Judgment Issued Amici (90)Relisted (4) anti-discrimination-law compelled-speech content-based content-based-regulation free-exercise free-speech religious-beliefs religious-liberty viewpoint-discrimination Whether applying a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist's sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the Free Speec…
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied IFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense
20-62 Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation whether-parents-surrender-fundamental-right-to-direct-upbringing-of-children
19-6439 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims alleging fraud, deception, and due process violations despite Petitioner's status as …
19-530 James Kerr Schlosser v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense
18-583 Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Whether holding a homeowner liable for refusing to host a same-sex couple violates due process and free exercise rights