| 25A94 |
Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits relief for religious adherents challenging a COVID-19 vaccination mandate that was repeal… |
| 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 |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits relief for religious adherents challenging a COVID-19 vaccination mandate that was repeal… |
| 24A110 |
Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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free-exercise government-property native-american-rights religious-burden rfra sacred-site |
Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and Free Exercise Clause protect Native American religious sites from government-authorized destr… |
| 21-1297 |
Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 20-946 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra |
Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? |
| 20-23 |
Dale Hartkemeyer, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
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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 |
| 19-1053 |
Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affordable-care-act contraception contraceptive-coverage federal-regulation health-insurance health-plans regulatory-authority regulatory-requirement religious-exemption religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra standing |
Whether the federal government lawfully exempted religious objectors from the regulatory requirement to provide health plans that include contraceptiv… |
| 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… |