| 25-911 |
Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud |
Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25A716 |
Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
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civil-rico documentary-evidence first-amendment fraud-claims historical-representations religious-organization |
Whether civil courts may, consistent with the First Amendment, adjudicate fraud and concealment claims predicated on objective historical facts and do… |
| 25A435 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
internal-revenue-service nominee-theory property-rights religious-organization tax-levy tax-lien |
Whether the IRS may impose a tax lien and levy on a religious organization's property based on the theory that the organization is a nominee for taxpa… |
| 24-154 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-08-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (43)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption |
Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organ… |
| 23A837 |
Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. |
Colorado |
2024-03-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization |
Whether the church-autonomy doctrine precludes a jury from determining whether a religious employer's stated reason for terminating an employee is pre… |
| 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… |
| 21-1027 |
Green Haven Preparative Meeting, et al. v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise institutional-rights prison-ministry religious-organization standing substantial-burden |
Does the standing of a religious organization to protect the fundamental practices of its faith from being abridged by the state cease at the prison w… |
| 21-398 |
Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock |
Texas |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability |
Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se… |
| 21-145 |
Gordon College, et al. v. Margaret DeWeese-Boyd |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Relisted (7) |
academic-disciplines academic-freedom christian-education christian-mission faculty-integration first-amendment good-faith-characterization ministerial-exception religious-colleges religious-organization spiritual-formation |
Whether professors at religious colleges perform ministerial functions |
| 20-1415 |
Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon v. Hak Ja Han Moon, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure collusion court-jurisdiction ecclesiastical-abstention fraud fraud-exception legal-doctrine religious-organization religious-organizations tortious-conduct |
Whether there is an exception to this Court's ecclesiastical abstention doctrine that allows courts to resolve disputes over whether control of a reli… |
| 20-1158 |
The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law |
Whether a secular court can adjudicate a minister's employment-related tort claims against a religious organization using neutral principles of tort l… |
| 20-506 |
Sergei Vinkov v. Mark Smith, et al. |
California |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights communication-decency-act defamation due-process first-amendment religious-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction volunteer-protection-act |
Whether the lower courts have subject matter jurisdiction over a defamation lawsuit against a foreign national board director of a religious organizat… |
| 18-921 |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-01-16 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (16) |
church-autonomy church-hierarchy church-structure civil-courts civil-rights ecclesiastical-rights ecclesiastical-structure establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech religious-organization |
Whether the First Amendment empowers courts to override the chosen legal structure of a religious organization and declare all of its constituent part… |