neutral-principles
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-849 | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell | District of Columbia | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power | For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in… |
| 25-634 | Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-12-03 | Pending | church-autonomy church-leadership first-amendment neutral-principles property-dispute religious-entanglement | Where necessary to resolve a church-property dispute, does the First Amendment prohibit courts from examining church-related facts to determine who le… | |
| 24-5844 | Kimberly Edelstein v. Max Edelstein | Ohio | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights contract-law due-process free-exercise-clause neutral-principles religious-marriage | 1. Does the Ohio court's dedsiofi to invalidate a Jewish Ketufaah as an unenforceable "promise to marry " and void as against public policy conflict w… |
| 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… |
| 20-1174 | Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims | Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c… |
| 20-1158 | The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law | 1. Whether a secular court can, consistent with the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, adjudicate a minister's employment-related state law tort clai… |
| 20-534 | All Saints' Episcopal Church (Fort Worth) v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. | Texas | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | church-property-dispute church-property-disputes ecclesiastical-question establishment-clause express-trust-provision free-exercise free-exercise-clause jones-v-wolf neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law | Whether the Texas Supreme Court's decision awarding petitioner's sanctuary and rectory to a dissident faction in contravention of the will of petition… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 19-158 | Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference | This case presents two important questions concerning the First Amendment's protection of churches against the power of the state. A disaffected facti… |
| 18-826 | Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson | Pennsylvania | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Response Waived | church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich | Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon… |
| 18-636 | The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church | Virginia | 2018-11-16 | Dismissed | 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… |