religious-land-use

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1140 Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa Whether the Eighth Circuit's mootness standard conflicts with Supreme Court precedent regarding policy amendments during litigation
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…
22-6225 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the unconstitutionally vague language struck down by the Court in 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies to 18 U.S.C. 2232(a)(1)
22-309 City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance What must a RLUIPA plaintiff show in a facial 'equal terms' challenge?
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?
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
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…
19-8246 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…
18-944 Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim?