| 25-6517 |
Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation |
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199… |
| 25-6392 |
Christopher Tyler Bray v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-interest religious-freedom |
What is the meaning of religion as it concerns the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, and what are the implicatio… |
| 25-692 |
Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline |
In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle… |
| 25-581 |
St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct |
Colorado's so-called universal preschool program pays for families to send their children to the preschool of their choice, public or private. To part… |
| 25-6047 |
Peter Bormuth v. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, aka EGLE |
Michigan |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law due-process precedent religious-freedom standing |
Two questions are presented:
1. Does the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause require state administrative tribunals to follow their own clearly establi… |
| 25A366 |
Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. |
California |
2025-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5702 |
In Re Justin Paul Sulzner |
|
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom |
1. Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court and the Iowa Northern District Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs and monetary damages … |
| 25A329 |
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
church-autonomy doctrinal-interpretation first-amendment hierarchical-organization judicial-review religious-freedom |
Whether the First Amendment forbids a court from deciding whether a denomination is hierarchical when it asserts that the church-autonomy doctrine mak… |
| 25-5639 |
Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa |
Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq… |
| 25-256 |
Libby Hilsenrath, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, C. H. v. Chathams School District Board of Education |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
|
establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause parental-rights public-school religious-freedom |
Whether a public school violates the Establishment Clause by assigning content that proselytizes for, extols, and gives favored treatment to Islam (or… |
| 25-233 |
Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department |
California |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (10) |
compelled-speech employment-division-smith free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage |
Petitioner Cathy Miller runs a small bakery in Bakersfield, California, where she designs and creates custom wedding cakes. After she declined to desi… |
| 25-5436 |
Jehan Semper v. Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
agent-misconduct civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights housing-discrimination real-estate-discrimination religious-freedom |
Constitutional and Civil Rights
1. Real Estate Agent(s) Refuse to Communicate Buyers Offer(s) to Seller(s). Is it a
violation of rights protected by… |
| 25-122 |
David Alan Carmichael, et al. v. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
damages-liability due-process free-exercise official-capacity religious-freedom right-to-travel |
Does the "appropriate relief ' of the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act allow for damages liability,
or nominal damages where other damages cannot b… |
| 25-5207 |
Jessica Salazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom |
In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1179 |
Dewey Austin Barnett, II v. Brenda Short, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
individual-officials money-damages religious-freedom RLUIPA spending-clause state-law |
1. This case presents an important question that has divided the Circuit Courts about the scope of Congress' authority under the Spending Clause to im… |
| 24-7138 |
Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom |
Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation fi… |
| 24-6778 |
Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa |
1. Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering—including terror and mental anguish—compared to an available alternative metho… |
| 24A722 |
Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion jurisdiction-challenge religious-freedom religious-practice |
Whether the US District Court is bound by 42 USC 21b § 2000bb, that government, including the courts, shall not substantially burden a person's exerci… |
| 24-6238 |
In Re Daniel Felix |
|
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
animal-rights constitutional-personhood due-process equal-protection hate-crime-classification religious-freedom |
1. That Non-property Animals have a US Constitutional Right to be individual
"stand alone" Plaintiffs and petitioners in Courts of the United States O… |
| 24-6214 |
Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom |
1. When a person's religion requires them to be a steward of the earth and protector of all of God's creations (i.e. where possible to preserve it and… |
| 24-660 |
Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom |
In accord with Supreme Court Rule 10(c), since a state court "has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decision… |
| 24-534 |
Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom |
In view of this Court's seminal holding recognizing the right of associational privacy in NAACP v. Alabama, and its teachings on the application of ex… |
| 24-5654 |
Vincent L. Hepburn v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
damages-claim establishment-clause federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment official-capacity religious-freedom |
1. Where federal employees acting in their official capacity violate 76 OK Stat § 1 and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause by harming Mr. Hepb… |
| 24-229 |
Sanjay Tripathy v. Jeff McKoy, Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-law damages-remedy government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Congress has enacted two "sister" statutes to protect religious exercise: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et se… |
| 24-71 |
Avraham Goldstein, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-semitism compelled-association exclusive-representation expressive-activities first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association religious-freedom state-prohibition union union-representation |
Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state to prohibit individuals from dissociating from a union's representation to protest that union's ex… |
| 24-24 |
Marcelo Hernandez v. Hassan Alameddine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
|
1983-claims 9th-circuit-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction religious-freedom rluipa rluipa-violation tort-claims |
Does the 9th circuit have power to ignore U.S. Supreme Court ruling in, Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131 (1988). |
| 23-7611 |
Steve Van Horne, et al. v. Central Appraisal District of Taylor County |
Texas |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process government government-authority religious-freedom sovereign-immunity standing tax taxation |
1. Does the Central Appraisal District of Taylor County have standing to sue Petitioners?
2. Do the Petitioners have a natural, indefeasible, and ina… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 23A854 |
Anthony Earl Ridley v. Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. |
Kansas |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion extraordinary-writ first-amendment religious-freedom rluipa standard-of-review |
(1.) Did the Court of Appeals contravene the requirements of the appellate court's standard of review on a motion for a temporary restraining order an… |
| 23-1030 |
Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. |
Mississippi |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing |
Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput… |
| 23-927 |
National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting |
The Copyright Royalty Board sets default royalty rates for webcasting sound recordings. Recently, the Board adopted rates requiring noncommercial reli… |
| 23-732 |
Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction. |
| 23-717 |
Israel Alvarado, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coerced-speech covid-19-vaccine-mandate military-chaplains promotion-discrimination religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act retaliation rfra-violation up-or-out-promotion-requirements up-or-out-requirement |
1. Whether this action was and remains justiciable because the RFRA violations' effects continue.
2. Whether the challenge to coerced speech survives… |
| 23-6090 |
In Re Kurt A. Benshoof |
|
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte… |
| 23-320 |
Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'… |
| 23-87 |
Cody A. Craig v. Emma R. Solorzano |
Maine |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise judicial-discretion parental-rights religious-freedom |
Does a court decision limiting parental rights, based upon express disapproval of the parent's "troubling" religious views, violate of the free exerci… |
| 23-5183 |
Allen S. Herschaft v. New York City Campaign Finance Board |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act res-judicata standing |
1) Whether Res Judicata precludes bringing the case?
2) Whether the defendant by enforcing its rules and regulations is violating plaintiffs free exe… |
| 23-5100 |
Vassil Marinov v. FCA US LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fair-trial pro-se religious-freedom standing |
1. Is it Constitutional, filed in the US District Court and for Jury case, for restoring the Right of Constitutionally Guaranteed Religious Freedom, i… |
| 22-7695 |
Meghan Marie Kelly v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom standing |
1. Whether there is subject matter jurisdiction under the applicable Pennsylvania
subject matter jurisdiction statute 204 Pa. Code § 85.3, given my st… |
| 22-7651 |
Lily Cassandra Alphonsis v. Joel Garnica, Deputy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force hijab-ban prison-administration religious-accommodation religious-freedom rluipa |
a) Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons, was the least restrictive means of ensuring effectiv… |
| 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" ) and its compelling
government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a
federal … |
| 22-7511 |
Jason C. Turem v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Florida |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights driver's-license drivers-license due-process equal-protection hardship-license pursuit-of-livelihood religious-freedom |
Whether Petitioner has a federal Constitutional right to equal protection & equal application under the law & rule to a business purpose hardship driv… |
| 22-1097 |
Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Petitioner was convicted of second degree murder based largely on the testimony of the sole witness to the killing, who placed Petitioner at the scene… |
| 22-1093 |
Mark Anthony Spell, et al. v. John Bel Edwards, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
church-assembly church-state-separation establishment-clause first-amendment founders-intent free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-freedom religious-liberty state-restrictions |
This is a vital case of first impression concerning our most sacred rights of religious freedom and the very nature of the Church and State as separat… |
| 22-942 |
Brian Tingley v. Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) |
counseling counseling-regulation employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech gender-identity professional-speech religious-freedom religious-liberty |
Brian Tingley is a licensed marriage and family counselor who helps clients with various issues, including sexuality and gender identity. A practicing… |
| 22-6783 |
Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom |
1. Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying my Motion to stay the civil rights proceeding relating to civil rights violations agains… |
| 22-6742 |
Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. |
Connecticut |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression |
WHERE THE GOVERNOR/MALLOY; P.DANNELL OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, RECOMMENDED SEMPLE,SCOTT AS COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS WITHIN CONNECTICUT TO THE ST… |
| 22-741 |
Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Relisted (4) |
church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing |
I. Whether the First Amendment's "ministerial exception" should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions… |
| 22-6715 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 22-321 |
Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2) |
equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal where the panel clearly misapprehended governing law on mootness and on the auth… |
| 22-301 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review legal-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claims standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. Jehovah the Lord god of… |
| 22-204 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2022-09-07 |
GVR |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights custom-art due-process employment-division employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-speech masterpiece-cakeshop religious-freedom religious-hostility |
1. Whether, under Masterpiece, the Oregon Court of Appeals should have entered judgment for Petitioners after finding that Respondent had demonstrated… |
| 22-5408 |
Lady Donna Dutchess v. Jason Dutch |
Alaska |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise lemon-test medical-scientology religious-freedom vaccine-mandate vaccine-mandates |
1. Regarding the American court's absolute faith in human-made vaccine concoctions, which is an important national and public issue, is it truly this … |
| 22-39 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. The Lord god of hosts J… |
| 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… |
| 21-8050 |
Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination |
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| 21-7881 |
In Re Justin Paul Sulzner |
|
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights covert-operations due-process foreign-intelligence injunctive-relief national-intelligence national-security religious-freedom religious-organization standing surveillance surveillance-court |
1. Whether the FISC should have followed its own established rules concerning action taken on the Movant's two complaints and should have granted emer… |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment
permit FACEA's protections from violence at a "place
of religious worship" to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-1405 |
Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa |
In Knight v. Thompson , the Eleventh Circuit concluded —on remand following Holt v. Hobbs , 574 U.S. 352 (2015) —that the Religious Land Use and Insti… |
| 21-1416 |
Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii |
After alleging that his immediate supervisor, the President of his Catholic high school, invoked racist stereotypes against Black people and other per… |
| 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 |
Petitioners, Catholic anti-nuclear activists, engaged in "symbolic disarmament" by damaging and spray painting facilities on a nuclear submarine base,… |
| 21-1263 |
Marvin Gerber v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
anti-israel anti-jewish first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-of-religion harassment intimidation judicial-review religious-freedom speech-restriction |
Jewish worshippers entering their synagogue for worship on Saturday mornings for Sabbath services are harassed and intimidated by a group that assembl… |
| 21-7282 |
Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa |
1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim… |
| 21-1076 |
Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan |
Michigan |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the petitioners ' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated, when Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals and Trial Cour… |
| 21-6883 |
Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing |
1. Does tho RLuipA require the louer courts to evaluate
the claims raised under the Aat under the legrtimate
penological interest test or the compelli… |
| 21-886 |
Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company |
Wisconsin |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement |
Introductory Statement
This is a liberty based "due process" case. Enactment by the Wisconsin legislature of the Wisconsin Marital Property Act in 19… |
| 21-844 |
Jim Carmack v. Mark Janny, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech housing-services parole parole-conditions religious-freedom state-action state-actor summary-judgment |
Whether the employee of a private, religious nonprofit may be held liable, as a state actor, for making pro bono housing and social services at the no… |
| 21-649 |
Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing |
1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe… |
| 21-6143 |
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California |
California |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict |
Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member… |
| 21-164 |
Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (10) |
church-autonomy church-state-separation civil-authority civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech ministerial-exception ministerial-exemption property-tax religious-doctrine religious-freedom |
Virginia law provides an exemption from property taxes for "[r]eal property and personal property owned by churches * * * and exclusively occupied or … |
| 21-144 |
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods |
Washington |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (17)Relisted (9) |
civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing |
1. Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists.
2. Whether denying the Mission a total exemption the state grants… |
| 20-8441 |
Thomas Kenneth Mills v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech religious-freedom standing takings |
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| 20-1770 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Northwell Health, et al. |
New York |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-relief legal-procedure mandamus-petition religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-church-and-state standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. The angel of the Lord A… |
| 20-1718 |
Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia |
1. Where the questions of the custody of a child have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virg… |
| 20-1647 |
Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. |
California |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom |
Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious "arbitration" where arbiters… |
| 20-1601 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. David B. Cohen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction divine-intervention due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing mandarin-translation religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. To fulfill Jehovah, - t… |
| 20-7948 |
Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1405 |
Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas |
Illinois |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law |
Whether Sharia is contrary to Our Constitution and laws?
Whether Sharia is untouchable?
Whether the Court erred in not granting the injunction and n… |
| 20-7044 |
Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom |
Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir… |
| 20-7028 |
Amos Mast, et al. v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2021-02-03 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
compelling-interest government-interest judicial-review least-restrictive-alternative religious-freedom rluipa strict-scrutiny |
(1) When applying strict scrutiny under RLUIPA, can lower courts rely upon an admission that an interest is compelling generally, or must they require… |
| 20-6717 |
Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment |
Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation in complaining of Respondents' depriving him of the use of Tefilli… |
| 20-6398 |
Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom |
DOES IT VIOLATE THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHEN A STATE THAT OFFERS PAROLE TO PRISONERS, DENIES PAROLE TO A PRISONE… |
| 20-655 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1. The Lord god of hosts J… |
| 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 |
THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU… |
| 20-536 |
The Episcopal Church, et al. v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. |
Texas |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
church-property church-property-disputes constitutional-law ecclesiastical-deference express-trusts first-amendment free-exercise neutral-principles polity religious-freedom |
The First Amendment limits civil courts' authority to resolve disputes within a church. For more than a century, this Court respected those limits by … |
| 20-508 |
Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test |
1) Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally "revoked" without a hearing or due process? This included all religious mail, edu… |
| 20-473 |
Ammar I. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
1- Whether the State's prolonged 'temporary' foster placement (in excess of 40 months) of children on a plan of reunification, violated federal law, i… |
| 20-261 |
Jeff Schulz, et al. v. Presbytery of Seattle. et al. |
Washington |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
church-autonomy church-property-disputes civil-procedure constitutional-law denominational-authority denominational-dispute first-amendment free-exercise property-ownership religious-freedom |
In a dispute between a local congregation and its former denomination over ownership of property to which the local congregation holds legal title, do… |
| 20-62 |
Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
|
bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation |
1. Whether parents surrender their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children by enrolling them in public school so that a school di… |
| 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 |
1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p… |
| 19-1253 |
Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
church-autonomy church-governance church-leadership civil-magistrate civil-rights first-amendment free-speech leadership-selection neutral-principles religious-freedom |
Whether a church's First Amendment rights are violated when, under the guise of "neutral principles," a civil magistrate selects the leadership of the… |
| 19-8254 |
Samuel Dowell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings |
1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal
property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through
The Commerce Clause simply because that ite… |
| 19-8123 |
Wendell Brown aka Menes Ankh El v. Superior Court of Indiana, Marion County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment legal-mail-rights name-change procedural-due-process religious-freedom signature-rights title-42-usc-2000bb-1 title-42-usc-2000cc-1 |
I. Does Ankh-El's common-law name change, which was executed 2 years prior to his arrest and almost 3 years prior to his imprisonment, have to be reco… |
| 19-1135 |
Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton |
California |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (7) |
civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act |
(1) Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical… |
| 19-947 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Robert N. Chatigny |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-complaint parable-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
1, Jehovah, -the Lord God … |
| 19-926 |
Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when, citing Obergefell v. Hodges, it created a special standard for a same-sex couple's claimed temporary burden o… |
| 19-837 |
Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process |
Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a… |
| 19-805 |
Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution |
(1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh… |
| 19-804 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law biblical-allegation civil-rights constitutional-claim divine-communication due-process first-amendment legal-standing presidential-liability religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-interpretation separation-of-church-and-state standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
Jehovah, the Lord god of t… |
| 19-803 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. |
New York |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings |
Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." Mit (t,)
That the civil magistr… |
| 19-7060 |
Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing |
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| 19-758 |
Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law |
1. Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment perio… |
| 19-6457 |
D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
1. Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner 's Federal Civil Rights
under Section 1983 by discriminating against the Petitioner 's Re… |
| 19-6392 |
Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing |
me issues responding to a no-merit repart that doesint
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the Sixth Amend… |
| 19-471 |
Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing |
Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Exodu… |
| 19-370 |
Samuel D. Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process federal-government individual-rights puerto-rico religious-freedom state-sovereignty |
I - Is Puerto Rico and its people under the juris diction of The United States of America Constitution and under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Am… |
| 19-333 |
Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2019-09-12 |
Rehearing |
Amici (10)Relisted (13) |
civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny |
Barronelle Stutzman is a Christian artist who imagines, designs, and creates floral art. She serves everyone and sells pre-arranged flowers for use in… |
| 19-267 |
Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing |
Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl… |
| 19-218 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. |
New York |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
1. messenger sent by Jehovah,- the Lord of host, said through the angel: 'Bring it over to face the judge.' Said it on October, 2012,
Wu Hua Jing M.D.… |
| 19-66 |
George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. |
Idaho |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), that the Free Exercise Clause generally requires no… |
| 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 1993, 42 U.S.C 2000bb et seq., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal employe… |
| 19-40 |
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor |
California |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice |
For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness… |
| 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 by feeding non-traditional inedible foo… |
| 18-9629 |
Matthew Hale v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act standing |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's usage of a determining test for whether factor-driven belief system qualifies a particular religion for the purposes of th… |
| 18-9598 |
James W. Guy v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut… |
| 18-1455 |
Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
civil-rights content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-freedom viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Whether WMATA's policy of refusing to accept advertisements that promote or oppose religion or reflect a religious perspective violates the First A… |
| 18-9358 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
WHETHER THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION'S RESTRICTIONS ON MR. LONG'S EXECTUION WITNESS AND REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM TO HAVE A NON-CLERGYMAN AS HIS S… |
| 18-1438 |
Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices |
For the past several decades, courts have struggled to determine when public schools may permissively teach about religion and when public schools cro… |
| 18-1297 |
New Doe Child #1, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
atheism currency-inscription due-process equal-protection establishment-clause monotheism political-disenfranchisement religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act |
(1) Whether Congress violates the Establishment Clause when it makes laws respecting an establishment of Monotheism, thus perpetuating and exacerbatin… |
| 18-8774 |
John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8615 |
In Re Patrick Henry Murphy |
|
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure |
When a State permits members of some faiths (e.g., Christians) to be accompanied in the execution chamber during the execution by a clergyperson of th… |
| 18-1231 |
Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) !
Attorney for … |
| 18-8335 |
Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights |
DID THE LOWER COUETS AUD JUDGES
VIOLATE APPELANT RISHT TOBE PRCES??
BOTH THE LOWE DISTRICT AUD CeCUT COUETS INOUTOUALLY MECGRED
PELAT'S BIVEUS - TYPE,… |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such … |
| 18-7942 |
Shannon Lancaster v. James Ruane |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process homeland-security standing takings civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom |
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| 18-1026 |
William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
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anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law |
Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by restraining free market trade and competition withou… |
| 18-959 |
Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks |
Colorado |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
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classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights |
Whether extracorporeal embryos created during marriage are persons or a property.
Whether classifying extracorporeal embryos as property and permitti… |
| 18-7404 |
John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv… |
| 18-6736 |
James E. Whitney v. Cindy Glover, Clerk, Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom standing |
Should and Individuals secured and protected Constitutional Right under the First Amendment to redress the Government for wrongs perpetuated against t… |
| 18-636 |
The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church |
Virginia |
2018-11-16 |
Dismissed |
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church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The trial court entered its Final Order disposing, inter alia, of Church Property, predicated upon a judicial determination that Grace Presbyterian wa… |
| 18-6606 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process establishment-clause free-speech religious-freedom standing |
Mr. Merrick alleged that he had a right to practice his sincerely held personal religious beliefs, especially when inmates of other religious farths w… |
| 18-345 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Jon O. Newman, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
book-of-doctrine-and-covenants civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process free-speech jehovah legal-complaint parable-of-the-woman-and-the-unjust-judge pharisees religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge widow widow-parable |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
Jehovah, -the Lord God of … |
| 18-262 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
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civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
Lord god of host Jehovah s… |
| 18-254 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
Lord god of host sent the … |
| 18-5781 |
Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing |
SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER A FEDERAL PRISONER CAN RAISE A SENTENCING ISSUE UNDER 28 U.S.… |
| 18-186 |
Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing |
1. How can be properly submitted to the rigors of the dispositive effects of materiality standard of False Claims Act [FCA] violations ; something hid… |
| 18-173 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Oren L. Zeve |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process ecclesiastical-claim ecclesiastical-dispute first-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-notice legal-promise mandamus messenger-claim property-rights religious-communication religious-freedom spiritual-testimony standing |
The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows
On the date of December 29… |
| 18-136 |
Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County |
Texas |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause |
Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home … |
| 24A447 |
John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
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Denied |
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bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights covid-vaccine public-health religious-freedom university-mandate |
Question not identified. |