| 22-7874 |
Joshua Piland, et ux. v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare due-process faith-based family-division governmental-interest least-restrictive-means natural-family parental-rights social-contract social-pact |
Should Parents be able to appeal jurisdiction in a termination case?
After obtaining jurisdiction, is Family Division court granted the authority to … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 22-14 |
Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy |
1. Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was bur… |
| 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,… |
| 21-7282 |
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… |
| 21-5592 |
John H. Ramirez v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)IFP |
compelling-governmental-interest compelling-state-interest execution-protocol free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech least-restrictive-means pastoral-support religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a religious-rights rluipa |
1. Under the Free Exercise Clause and Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc–2000cc–5 (2000), does the S… |
| 18-583 |
Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |