| 25-190 |
John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment |
Whether the removal of an irreplaceable religious resource from a cemetery injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant and whether symboli… |
| 25-113 |
Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny |
Whether state laws regulating health care sharing ministries must be deemed neutral under Employment Division v. Smith and whether federal ACA exempti… |
| 24-1327 |
Spirit of Aloha Temple, a Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation, et al. v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
first-amendment municipal-jurisdiction religious-exercise rluipa substantial-burden zoning-permit |
Must a religious organization seeking to build a church prove that it is precluded from using other sites within a municipality's jurisdiction and/or … |
| 24-291 |
Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
Amici (15)Relisted (18) |
free-exercise-clause government-action native-american-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site |
Whether the government 'substantially burdens' religious exercise under RFRA, or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when… |
| 23-7360 |
Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination |
Whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recusal of a judge prior to a final determination on the merits |
| 23-1101 |
Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden |
Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief |
| 23-6429 |
Jan M. Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies due-process free-exercise free-exercise-clause mailbox-rule property-rights religious-exercise rluipa summary-judgment |
Whether the Connecticut district court improperly applied the 'mailbox rule' in dismissing the plaintiff's timely administrative remedies/exhaustion c… |
| 23A361 |
Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights first-amendment government-petition pro-se-litigation religious-exercise statute-of-limitations |
Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional claims regarding First Amendment rights to religious exercise and government petition can be preserved for … |
| 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… |
| 22-260 |
Burtonsville Associates, et al. v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
|
church-construction equal-terms equal-terms-claim free-exercise religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa substantial-burden zoning zoning-denial |
Must a congregation prove reasonable expectation of zoning approval to establish substantial burden under RLUIPA? |
| 21-8180 |
Rives Grogan v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al… |
| 21-6883 |
Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing |
Whether RLUIPA requires courts to evaluate claims under the 'compelling interest' test or the 'least restrictive means' test |
| 20-1137 |
California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden |
Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not 'substantially burden… |
| 20-694 |
Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis |
Did the Wisconsin courts deprive petitioners of due process by reversing sanctions without notice? |
| 20-23 |
Dale Hartkemeyer, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
|
free-exercise last-rites ministerial-duty pandemic pandemic-execution prisoner prisoner-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom RFRA |
Where a priest has a sacred religious duty to minister last rites to a prisoner under his pastoral care, does scheduling the prisoner's execution duri… |
| 20-14 |
Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law |
Whether an owner of real property has Article III standing to challenge a municipality's zoning law that prohibits the owner's proposed religious land… |
| 19-1387 |
Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision |
Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act 'three-strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access to c… |
| 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 |
| 19-8246 |
Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again… |
| 18-548 |
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing |
Whether RFRA claims must be exhausted through administrative procedures before being asserted in court |