No. 19-8246

Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al.

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2020-04-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-10-09 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Visiting policy violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act of 2000, U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq. (2006), when it prohibits a religious conjugal visit request not to stay overnight. To the extent the prison policy allows the LGBTQ Prisoners to marry and live in the same prison as cellmates.

2. Whether the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections cellmate policy Discriminates against heterosexual inmate who requested a religious Conjugal Visit, Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act. Not to stay overnight But authorizes the LGBTQ inmates to live together as cellmates and spouse -Married to one another.

3. Whether Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Prayer Oil Policy Prohibiting Petitioner from possessing Prayer Oil in his cell for Worship Burdens Petitioner's Religious Exercise and Violates his RLUIPA right.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures

Docket Entries

2020-10-13
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-09-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-06-26
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-06-15
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/11/2020.
2019-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 13, 2020)

Attorneys

Gregory Thomas
Gregory Thomas — Petitioner