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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 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 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 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 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…