No. 25-190

John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-08-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the removal from a cemetery of an irreplaceable religious resource memorializing the dead, leaving behind an empty stone base, injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant.

2. Whether, if symbolic banishment and stigmatic proclamation for an unadjudicated crime by Congress are punishments constituting a Bill of Attainder, the descendants of attainted dead may be injured through defamatory stigmatization, including of their mourning practices.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the removal of an irreplaceable religious resource from a cemetery injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant and whether symbolic banishment and stigmatic proclamation by Congress constitutes a Bill of Attainder that injures descendants

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-09-02
Waiver of right of respondent Hegseth, Sec. of Defense, et al. to respond filed.
2025-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 17, 2025)

Attorneys

Hegseth, Sec. of Defense, et al.
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
John Patrick Moran
John Patrick Moran — Petitioner