substantial-burden
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5236 | Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment | Does the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes a substantial burden upon religious practice and did it make erroneous and impermissible… |
| 24-1327 | Spirit of Aloha Temple, a Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation, et al. v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | first-amendment municipal-jurisdiction religious-exercise rluipa substantial-burden zoning-permit | Must a religious organization seeking to build a church prove that it is precluded from using other sites within a municipality's jurisdiction and/or … |
| 23-1101 | Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen | District of Columbia | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden | Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief |
| 22-7780 | John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al. | Washington | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | Whether prison officials can require prisoners to show centrality in religious exercise, and whether prison officials can regulate prisoners' sincerit… |
| 22-7614 | Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden | Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) apply to protect a federal inmate's religious liberties when she has adequately pleaded a substantia… |
| 22-6230 | Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process | Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe… |
| 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? | |
| 22-108 | Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secular a… |
| 21-8180 | Rives Grogan v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al… |
| 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… |
| 20-1137 | California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Amici (2) | disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden | Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not 'substantially burden… |
| 20-6258 | Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden | Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error, contrary to 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., when it abdicated the responsibility, conferred by Congress on… |
| 18A1334 | Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden | Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act requires a prisoner to demonstrate severe financial hardship to establish a substanti… | |
| 18-9649 | Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-exercise halal-diet prison religious-freedom rluipa substantial-burden | Whether RLUIPA prohibits the Defendants from placing a substantial burden upon Petitioner's religious exercise |