undue-hardship
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-126 | Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship | Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary religious-accommodation scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whet… |
| 24-931 | Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response Waived | accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship | Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not by i… |
| 24-48 | Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship | Does an employer violate Title VII when it fails to hire a person because his sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit him from agreeing to recognize… | |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… | |
| 22-174 | Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Third Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Judgment Issued | Amici (57)Relisted (2) | civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the Court should disapprove the Hardison test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations |
| 21-5290 | Gordon Nitka v. Department of Education | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy-law brunner-test default loan-default repayment-period rosenberg speculative-income student-loan-discharge student-loans undue-hardship | In analyzing the second prong of the Brunner test to determine 'undue hardship,' how should courts weigh speculation on the borrower's future income p… |
| 20-886 | Thelma G. McCoy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Amici (3) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in applying the Brunner test instead of the totality test to determine whether a debtor would suffer an 'undue hardshi… |
| 20-495 | Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims |
| 19-1461 | Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (13) | civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an 'undue hardship' under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-1388 | Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) | civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an 'undue hardship' in accommodating an emp… |
| 18-567 | Danny Snapp v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | ada ADA-interactive-process ada-reasonable-accommodation burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination employer-burden employment interactive-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment undue-hardship us-airways-v-barnett | whether-employer-must-provide-interactive-process-instruction | |
| 18-349 | Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se… |