| 25-5869 |
Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor |
1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 22-6054 |
Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy on religious expression in the execution chamber |
| 21-8251 |
John L. Miller v. S. Acosta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process judicial-bias religious-rights standing |
Is the Ish Amendment right of access to the courts violated? |
| 21-8138 |
Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights |
May a district court prohibit a defendant from possessing and consulting a Bible during a criminal trial? |
| 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 … |
| 21-5592 |
John H. Ramirez v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)IFP |
compelling-governmental-interest compelling-state-interest execution-protocol free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech least-restrictive-means pastoral-support religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a religious-rights rluipa |
Does the State's decision to restrict a pastor's religious practices during an execution substantially burden the free exercise of religion under the … |
| 20-7108 |
Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. |
Connecticut |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights |
Where the Connecticut Department of Correction violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, denying used books from publishers without inspection, de… |
| 20-5899 |
Bodhisattva Skandha v. William Bates |
Massachusetts |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal due-process judicial-procedure pure-land-buddhism religious-rights standing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Whether The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion By Dismissing The Case? |
| 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 |