religious-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law Whether the First Amendment's prohibition on congressional lawmaking limits judicial interpretation of religious doctrine and tort claims, and whether…
22-301 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States District of Columbia 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review legal-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claims standing Whether the plaintiff has standing to bring claims against the defendants based on religious beliefs and divine revelations
22-39 Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelations and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
21-164 Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia Virginia 2021-08-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (10) church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom Whether civil authorities violate the First Amendment when they engage in their own interpretation of church doctrine to overrule a church's determina…
20-1770 Xiu Jian Sun v. Northwell Health, et al. New York 2021-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-relief legal-procedure mandamus-petition religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims regarding divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
20-655 Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. District of Columbia 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
19-947 Xiu Jian Sun v. Robert N. Chatigny Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-complaint parable-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge Whether the plaintiff has standing to bring claims based on alleged divine revelations and religious doctrines
19-218 Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the messenger sent by Jehovah, the Lord of host, through the angel, has the authority to bring the case before the judge
19-158 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference Does the First Amendment require courts to consider whether a judicial inquiry intrudes coercively into church governance even when there is no religi…
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice Did California violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it held the former national offices of Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) responsible fo…
18A1261 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete church-autonomy civil-courts ecclesiastical-abstention fiduciary-duties first-amendment religious-doctrine Whether the First Amendment's ecclesiastical abstention doctrine precludes civil courts from adjudicating internal church disputes involving alleged f…
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky 2019-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether the First Amendment requires state courts to dismiss suits immediately upon a showing that the claim turns upon the interpretation or applicat…
18-1231 Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. New York 2019-03-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation Issue being raised
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law