religious-discrimination

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25-6058 Raymond E. Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment prison-ministry religious-discrimination rluipa 1. Does.Texas' Partnership With The 'Heart'Of Texas College Of Ministry, A Solely Christian-Based Organization Housed And Operated On A Texas Prison…
25-394 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-10-02 Denied building-codes constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-law religious-discrimination The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United State…
25-261 Christine Asing v. Hawaii Government Employees Association - AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO Ninth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied grievance-procedure labor-organization mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii Whether a labor organization violates Title VII when it refuses to pursue grievances based on religious objections while pursuing comparable secular g…
25-5270 Lawrence Newman, et ux. v. Heritage Village West Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Florida 2025-08-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure-litigation judicial-misconduct nonprofit-status religious-discrimination Whether HVW's alleged religious discrimination against Jews in foreclosure litigation violated constitutional due process rights and potentially disqu…
25-126 Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whether their personal relig…
24-7510 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP building-codes constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-regulation religious-discrimination Whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause when treating one religious organization differently from another
24-931 Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Sixth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not by i…
24-733 Daniel Snyder v. Arconic, Corp., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived abercrombie-standard accommodation employment-law prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii Whether a sincerely motivated religious expression establishes a prima facie case of religious discrimination under Title VII without additional showi…
24-558 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied fair-housing-act hostile-environment jury-trial religious-discrimination rule-50b seventh-amendment Whether the 9th Circuit erred in overturning a jury verdict in a Fair Housing Act case involving religious discrimination by a homeowners' association
24-396 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) charter-schools establishment-clause free-exercise-clause pedagogical-choice religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state's charter school program solely because …
24-394 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) charter-schools educational-rights establishment-clause free-exercise-clause religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from a charter-school program solely based on religious…
24-261 Ammar A. Idlibi v. Mary-Margret D. Burgdorff, Judge, Middlesex Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-exception discrimination-claim judicial-immunity parental-rights racial-animus religious-discrimination Whether constitutional exceptions should exist to judicial immunities in discrimination claims against judges
24A145 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete bostock-standard but-for-causation mcdonnell-douglas-framework religious-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework for summary judgment in Title VII cases improperly conflicts with the but-for causation standard established i…
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…
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination Whether the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the plaintiff were violated due to religious discrimination, harassment, and academic e…
23A1078 Mark Bochra v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment government-endorsement ihra-definition judicial-mandamus religious-discrimination viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment prohibits the U.S. Department of Education from adopting or endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IH…
23-7368 Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether the respondent's termination of the petitioner for observing the Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath day (Saturday) constitutes religious-discrimina…
23-837 Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace Are employer statements on religious discrimination binding judicial admissions in a Title VII de novo review?
23-6416 Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and frau…
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
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines' misrepresentation of the terms of t…
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…
21-1429 Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory text and First Amendment permit FACEA's protections from violence at a 'place of religious worship' to apply only to places reli…
21-1416 Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii Whether the ministerial exception applies to a lay principal who is not a spiritual leader of his religious high school
21-5926 Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment Whether the presence of defendants' recorded slurs is indispensable for a discrimination case or if ample evidence of discriminatory actions is suffic…
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…
20-1794 Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, et al. v. Department of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts chaplain-selection civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause government-neutrality religious-discrimination standing Whether the Navy's grant of unbridled power to reject Non-denominational chaplains to serve as chaplain selection board members violated rulings in Gr…
20-6978 Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18-U.S.C-924(c)
20-6595 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Salem United Methodist Church, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-10 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP baptism baptismal-practices church-membership civil-rights discrimination due-process pastoral-authority procedural-fairness religious-discrimination united-methodist-church why-was-my-membership-terminated
20-569 Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-exception religious-discrimination religious-gatherings strict-scrutiny Whether the Free Exercise Clause prohibits government discrimination against religious gatherings
20-340 Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion government-endorsement religious-discrimination standing Whether the federal government may continue to degrade atheists from the equal rank of citizens by repeatedly, flagrantly, and facially lending its po…
19-8497 Christopher Lyman v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni…
19-725 JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau…
19-6191 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment?
19-5841 Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla…
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
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-1112 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights?
18-1007 Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes…
18-7283 Angel Bartlett v. Kalamazoo County Community Mental Health Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights corrective-programs discriminatory-practices due-process false-imprisonment false-reporting false-reports mental-health mental-health-confinement probate religious-discrimination torture-allegations weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it illegal or wrongful for Community Mental Health to be holding Angel Bartlett in corrective programs even when there is no open probate to hold A…
18-365 The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. New Jersey 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (6) church-state-separation constitutional-rights establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding government-grants historic-preservation religious-discrimination religious-neutrality standing status-use-distinction Does the categorical exclusion of active houses of worship from a competitive government grant program advancing the secular interest of historic pres…