religious-accommodation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1166 | Charles Miller v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-10 | Pending | civil-rights-act employment-discrimination groff-v-dejoy religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may satisfy its heightened burden, established by the Supreme Court's decision i… | |
| 25A1023 | Elena Mukhina v. Walmart, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-03-18 | Application | hostile-work-environment national-origin-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination retaliation title-vii | Question not identified. | |
| 25A981 | David Petersen, et al. v. Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-06 | Application | covid-19-vaccination-mandate groff-v-dejoy religious-accommodation summary-judgment title-vii undue-hardship | Question not identified. | |
| 25-963 | Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems | Second Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | Amici (2) | preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship vaccine-mandate | 1. Whether an employer faces a per se Title VII undue hardship if granting an otherwise federally required religious accommodation would conflict with… |
| 25A624 | Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems | Second Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Presumed Complete | employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii | (1) whether the Supremacy Clause allows states to bypass Title VII's accommodations requirement; and (2) whether employers can avoid Title VII religio… | |
| 25-5966 | Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii | 1) Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, can employers demand statements of apostasy as well as set restrictions on how an employee can c… |
| 25-5663 | Brahim Boumakh v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations employment-discrimination jury-trial procedural-technicalities religious-accommodation | Whether a United States District Court judge may dismiss a civil rights employment discrimination case on procedural technicalities without granting… |
| 24-1015 | John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Pending | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii | (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may se… |
| 24-996 | Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits an employer from discharging an individual "because of such individual's . . . religion.… |
| 24A621 | Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida | Florida | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise prison-rights religious-accommodation spiritual-advisor | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6169 | Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim first-amendment free-exercise prisoner-rights religious-accommodation | If Reasonableness Submit Would And Beef Mae Iomenter. KAN WTERNIMLY WWLOSSTEA™ STATE Mrocequace BRA IS POKQUATE TO PrectvOeE FeRe AR WaGers Review . … |
| 24-359 | Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii | 1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourtee… | |
| 24-48 | Dan Giurca v. Bon Secours Charity Health System, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | employment-agreement employment-discrimination religious-accommodation religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii undue-hardship | Title VII makes it an unlawful "for an employer . . . to fail or refuse to hire . . . any individual . . . because of such individual's . . . religion… | |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship | (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh… | |
| 22-7780 | John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al. | Washington | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | A. WHETHER PRISON OFFICIALS CAN REQUIRE PRISONERS TO SHOW CENTRALITY IN W-DOC'S RRIS APPLICATION PROCESS FOR REQUESTING RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS, AND … |
| 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… |
| 22-174 | Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Third Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Judgment Issued | Amici (57)Relisted (2) | civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship | 1. Whether this Court should disapprove the more-than-de-minimis-cost test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations stated in Trans World Airli… |
| 22-108 | Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden | 1. Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secula… |
| 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… |
| 21-8113 | Toya Gibson v. Wayfair, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | disability-discrimination disability-rights employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation genetic-information-discrimination genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act religious-accommodation religious-discrimination wrongful-termination | The treatment in the adverse action of a wrongful termination in response to my dental disability, using the genetic information pertaining to my Pare… |
| 21-717 | John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii | "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More… |
| 21-5643 | Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii | In Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress generally prohibited private employers from discriminating against an individual "because of su… |
| 20-8473 | Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii | The EEO, and Title VII Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employee to discriminate against any employee or applicant, regardless of race, color, age… |
| 19-1461 | Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (13) | civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an "undue hardship" under Title VII, 42 … |
| 19-1388 | Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) | civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship | Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an "undue hardship" in accommodating an emp… |
| 19-8695 | Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)IFP | compelling-interest execution execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-accommodation religious-adviser religious-exercise rluipa spiritual-aid | 1. Under the RLUIPA, does the State's decision to deprive Mr. Gutierrez of the opportunity to be accompanied during his execution by a religious advis… |
| 18A1334 | Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden | 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… | |
| 18-349 | Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e… |
| 18-5055 | Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings | (1) whethoR the CouRt of Appeals RExedeRed A decision which conFlicts with this couRt 2nd decisioxs OF It's own CoaRt, whon It Ruld thAt 2 dismiss Al … |