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25-6517 Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending IFP damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199…
25-6392 Christopher Tyler Bray v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Pending IFP constitutional-law establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-interest religious-freedom What is the meaning of religion as it concerns the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, and what are the implicatio…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle…
25-581 St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct Colorado's so-called universal preschool program pays for families to send their children to the preschool of their choice, public or private. To part…
25-6047 Peter Bormuth v. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, aka EGLE Michigan 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law due-process precedent religious-freedom standing Two questions are presented: 1. Does the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause require state administrative tribunals to follow their own clearly establi…
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful …
25-5702 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2025-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom 1. Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court and the Iowa Northern District Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs and monetary damages …
25A329 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-22 Presumed Complete church-autonomy doctrinal-interpretation first-amendment hierarchical-organization judicial-review religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment's church-autonomy doctrine precludes judicial review of a religious organization's internal governance and doctrinal deter…
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq…
25-256 Libby Hilsenrath, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, C. H. v. Chathams School District Board of Education Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause parental-rights public-school religious-freedom Whether a public school violates the Establishment Clause by assigning content that proselytizes for, extols, and gives favored treatment to Islam (or…
25-233 Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department California 2025-08-28 Denied Amici (10) compelled-speech employment-division-smith free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage Petitioner Cathy Miller runs a small bakery in Bakersfield, California, where she designs and creates custom wedding cakes. After she declined to desi…
25-5436 Jehan Semper v. Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied IFP agent-misconduct civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights housing-discrimination real-estate-discrimination religious-freedom Constitutional and Civil Rights 1. Real Estate Agent(s) Refuse to Communicate Buyers Offer(s) to Seller(s). Is it a violation of rights protected by…
25-122 David Alan Carmichael, et al. v. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived damages-liability due-process free-exercise official-capacity religious-freedom right-to-travel Does the "appropriate relief ' of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allow for damages liability, or nominal damages where other damages cannot b…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the …
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
24-7138 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied IFP district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation
24-6778 Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-16 Dismissed IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment; Whether exec…
24A722 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Presumed Complete court-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion jurisdiction-challenge religious-freedom religious-practice Whether a district court violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by substantially burdening a person's religious exercise through court procedu…
24-6238 In Re Daniel Felix 2025-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP animal-rights constitutional-personhood due-process equal-protection hate-crime-classification religious-freedom Whether non-property animals possess constitutional rights as individual plaintiffs and victims of cruelty in United States courts
24-6214 Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom Whether local landscaping ordinances that restrict native plant growth violate religious freedoms, property rights, and equal protection under the law
24-660 Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. Massachusetts 2024-12-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment religious freedom rights and improperly awarded legal fees
24-534 Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response Waived associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom Whether a church can challenge a civil discovery order requiring disclosure of member information under exacting scrutiny principles established in NA…
24-5654 Vincent L. Hepburn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP damages-claim establishment-clause federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment official-capacity religious-freedom Whether federal employees can be held liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for alleged Establishment Clause violations related to religious promot…
24-229 Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-29 Pending Relisted (3) constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA
24-71 Avraham Goldstein, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism compelled-association exclusive-representation expressive-activities first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association religious-freedom state-prohibition union union-representation Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state to prohibit individuals from dissociating from a union's representation to protest that union's ex…
24-24 Marcelo Hernandez v. Hassan Alameddine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied 1983-claims 9th-circuit-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction religious-freedom rluipa rluipa-violation tort-claims Does the 9th circuit have power to ignore U.S. Supreme Court ruling in, Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131 (1988)
23-7611 Steve Van Horne, et al. v. Central Appraisal District of Taylor County Texas 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process government government-authority religious-freedom sovereign-immunity standing tax taxation Does the Central Appraisal District of Taylor County have standing to sue Petitioners?
23-1197 Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionali…
23A854 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. Kansas 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion extraordinary-writ first-amendment religious-freedom rluipa standard-of-review Whether a state prisoner may seek extraordinary writ relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) when state appellate courts have considered a claim on the merit…
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
23-927 National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting Whether approving noncommercial rates that favor NPR's secular speech over religious speech violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) or t…
23-732 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
23-717 Israel Alvarado, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerced-speech covid-19-vaccine-mandate military-chaplains promotion-discrimination religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act retaliation rfra-violation up-or-out-promotion-requirements up-or-out-requirement Whether this action was and remains justiciable because the RFRA violations' effects continue
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-320 Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'…
23-87 Cody A. Craig v. Emma R. Solorzano Maine 2023-07-31 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise judicial-discretion parental-rights religious-freedom Does a court decision limiting parental rights based on disapproval of a parent's religious views violate the Free Exercise Clause?
23-5183 Allen S. Herschaft v. New York City Campaign Finance Board Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act res-judicata standing Whether Res Judicata precludes bringing the case?
23-5100 Vassil Marinov v. FCA US LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fair-trial pro-se religious-freedom standing Is it constitutional for a court to dismiss a case seeking to restore constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom due to procedural issues with the …
22-7695 Meghan Marie Kelly v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom standing Whether there is subject matter jurisdiction under the applicable Pennsylvania subject matter jurisdiction statute
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…
22-7614 Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) apply to protect a federal inmate's religious liberties when she has adequately pleaded a substantia…
22-1097 Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses was violated by allowing the sole witness to testify in a niqab
22-7511 Jason C. Turem v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. Florida 2023-05-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights driver's-license drivers-license due-process equal-protection hardship-license pursuit-of-livelihood religious-freedom Whether Petitioner has a federal Constitutional right to equal protection & equal application under the law & rule to a business purpose hardship driv…
22-1093 Mark Anthony Spell, et al. v. John Bel Edwards, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived church-assembly church-state-separation establishment-clause first-amendment founders-intent free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-freedom religious-liberty state-restrictions Whether the State's restrictions on church assembly and worship violate the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses under the Founders' understanding
22-942 Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty Whether a law that censors conversations between counselors and clients as 'unprofessional conduct' violates the Free Speech Clause
22-6783 Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying a stay of civil-rights proceedings
22-6742 Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression Whether the Connecticut Department of Corrections' policy of prohibiting incarcerated Catholics/Christians from openly displaying religious articles s…
22-741 Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker Tenth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (4) church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment's 'ministerial exception' should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions fa…
22-6715 Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-07 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights were violated by Facebook's surveillance of their religious posts about UFOs
22-321 Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-05 Dismissed Amici (2) equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal
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
22-204 Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries Oregon 2022-09-07 GVR Amici (13)Relisted (2) civil-rights custom-art due-process employment-division employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech masterpiece-cakeshop religious-freedom religious-hostility Whether, under Masterpiece, the Oregon Court of Appeals should have entered judgment for Petitioners after finding that Respondent had demonstrated an…
22-5408 Lady Donna Dutchess v. Jason Dutch Alaska 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise lemon-test medical-scientology religious-freedom vaccine-mandate vaccine-mandates Is the court's faith in vaccine mandates an unconstitutional establishment of the religion of medical scientology?
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
21-8180 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…
21-8050 Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to dismiss the respondent's complaint
21-7881 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covert-operations due-process foreign-intelligence injunctive-relief national-intelligence national-security religious-freedom religious-organization standing surveillance surveillance-court Whether the FISC should have followed its own established rules concerning action taken on the Movant's two complaints and should have granted emergen…
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…
21-1405 Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Amici (8) accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying RLUIPA when it held that Georgia need not grant a religious accommodation offered in 39 other prison sy…
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
21-1297 Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act imposes a burden on the government to demonstrate that it has actually considered and rejected the effic…
21-1263 Marvin Gerber v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anti-israel anti-jewish first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-of-religion harassment intimidation judicial-review religious-freedom speech-restriction Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion requires restriction adjacent to a house of worship of harassing and intimida…
21-7282 Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice?
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated
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
21-886 Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company Wisconsin 2021-12-15 Denied civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision deprives persons domiciled in Wisconsin of their fundamental liberty right to exercise their statutory …
21-844 Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Dismissed civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio…
21-6143 Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California California 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/hashish and/or mescaline
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…
21-144 Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods Washington 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (17)Relisted (9) civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists
20-8441 Thomas Kenneth Mills v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech religious-freedom standing takings whether-the-pharmacist's-refusal-to-fill-a-prescription-violates-the-patient's-constitutional-rights
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
20-1718 Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether a court may subject a person to religious arbitration under the First Amendment
20-1601 Xiu Jian Sun v. David B. Cohen, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction divine-intervention due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing mandarin-translation religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are justiciable under the U.S. Constitution
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof?
20-1405 Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas Illinois 2021-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law Whether Sharia is contrary to our Constitution and laws?
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-7028 Amos Mast, et al. v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2021-02-03 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP compelling-interest government-interest judicial-review least-restrictive-alternative religious-freedom rluipa strict-scrutiny When applying strict scrutiny under RLUIPA, can lower courts rely upon an admission that an interest is compelling generally, or must they require the…
20-6717 Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. Second Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against…
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
20-6258 Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error, contrary to 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., when it abdicated the responsibility, conferred by Congress on…
20-536 The Episcopal Church, et al. v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (2) church-property church-property-disputes constitutional-law ecclesiastical-deference express-trusts first-amendment free-exercise neutral-principles polity religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment requires courts to enforce express trusts in church governing documents or whether state law may render such trusts unenfo…
20-508 Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process?
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-10-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-261 Jeff Schulz, et al. v. Presbytery of Seattle. et al. Washington 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) church-autonomy church-property-disputes civil-procedure constitutional-law denominational-authority denominational-dispute first-amendment free-exercise property-ownership religious-freedom Does the First Amendment permit courts to apply a rule of absolute deference to assertions of ownership by a denomination in a dispute over property o…
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
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…
19-1415 John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra Whether the Affordable Care Act contains one or more constitutional violations
19-1253 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania 2020-04-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of 'neutral principles,' a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the…
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings Can Congress regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eternity through the Commerce Clause simply because that item at …
19-8123 Wendell Brown aka Menes Ankh El v. Superior Court of Indiana, Marion County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment legal-mail-rights name-change procedural-due-process religious-freedom signature-rights title-42-usc-2000bb-1 title-42-usc-2000cc-1 Does Ankh-El's common-law name change have to be recognized by the courts and IDOC?
19-1135 Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton California 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (7) civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical pro…
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
19-926 Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its analysis of the right-to-marry for same-sex couples
19-837 Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a…
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine
19-7060 Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing Was prisoners constitutional and statutory right to petition and religious freedoms violated when the district court dismissed his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ci…
19-803 Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. New York 2019-12-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings Petition for writ of certiorari
19-804 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-allegation civil-rights constitutional-claim divine-communication due-process first-amendment legal-standing presidential-liability religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-interpretation separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims against the President of the United States and other government officials for alleged divine revelations and religious …
19-758 Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment period o…
19-6457 D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner's Federal Civil Rights
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-471 Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally?
19-370 Samuel D. Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. Puerto Rico 2019-09-19 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process federal-government individual-rights puerto-rico religious-freedom state-sovereignty Is Puerto Rico under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Constitution and the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment?
19-333 Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2019-09-12 Rehearing Amici (10)Relisted (13) civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny Whether the State violates a floral designer's First Amendment rights to free exercise and free speech by forcing her to take part in and create custo…
19-267 Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl…
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
19-66 George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. Idaho 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
19-71 FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seqg., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal emplo…
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…
18-9649 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-exercise halal-diet prison religious-freedom rluipa substantial-burden Whether RLUIPA prohibits the Defendants from placing a substantial burden upon Petitioner's religious exercise
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…
18-9629 Matthew Hale v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act standing whether the Tenth Circuit's usage of a factor-driven test for determining whether a particular belief system qualifies as a 'religious' group for purp…
18-1455 Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2019-05-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) civil-rights content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-freedom viewpoint-discrimination Whether WMATA's policy of refusing to accept advertisements that promote or oppose religion or reflect a religious perspective violates the First Amen…
18-9358 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether the Florida Department of Correction's restrictions on Mr. Long's execution witness and refusing to allow him to have a non-clergyman as his s…
18-1438 Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices Whether public schools may require students to assert religious beliefs and recite prayers that offend their religious convictions
18-1297 New Doe Child #1, et al. v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived atheism currency-inscription due-process equal-protection establishment-clause monotheism political-disenfranchisement religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether Congress violates the Establishment Clause when it makes laws respecting an establishment of Monotheism, thus perpetuating and exacerbating th…
18-8774 John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Amish Sect's religious beliefs and practices are protected under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment
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…
18-1231 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
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden…
18-7942 Shannon Lancaster v. James Ruane Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process homeland-security standing takings civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religi…
18-1026 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-959 Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks Colorado 2019-01-24 Denied classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights Whether extracorporeal embryos are persons or property
18-7404 John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv…
18-6736 James E. Whitney v. Cindy Glover, Clerk, Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom standing Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against respondents for lack of standing and failure …
18-636 The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church Virginia 2018-11-16 Dismissed church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the trial court's determination that Grace Presbyterian was the successor church to Pure Presbyterian, which was held to have been extinguishe…
18-6606 Anthony James Merrick v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process establishment-clause free-speech religious-freedom standing Does the lack of a workable test for determination of religious sincerity create arbitrary decisions based on bias that effectively violate the Establ…
18-345 Xiu Jian Sun v. Jon O. Newman, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived book-of-doctrine-and-covenants civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process free-speech jehovah legal-complaint parable-of-the-woman-and-the-unjust-judge pharisees religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge widow widow-parable Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint alleging violations of religious-freedom, civil-rights, due-process, free-speec…
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
18-254 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the President of the United States has the authority to disregard the religious beliefs and revelations of the spiritual Adam, Xiu Jian Sun, a…
18-5781 Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing Does the First Amendment prohibit the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs?
18-186 Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing How can be properly submitted to the rigors of the dispositive effects of materiality standard of False Claims Act [FCA] violations; something hidden …
18-173 Xiu Jian Sun v. Oren L. Zeve Second Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process ecclesiastical-claim ecclesiastical-dispute first-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-notice legal-promise mandamus messenger-claim property-rights religious-communication religious-freedom spiritual-testimony standing Whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its servant Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam, have standing to challenge the dismissal of …
18-136 Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County Texas 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home …
24A447 John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights covid-vaccine public-health religious-freedom university-mandate Whether a public university's COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates a student's constitutional rights to bodily autonomy and religious freedom