| 25A322 |
We The Patriots USA, Inc., et al v. Ventura Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fetal-cell-lines first-amendment free-exercise religious-exemption school-attendance vaccination-mandate |
1. Whether California Health and Safety Code violates Jane Doe's First Amendment right to direct her son's religious upbringing by excluding him from … |
| 25-133 |
Joseph Miller, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
GVR |
Amici (17) |
constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-exemption secular-exemption smith-precedent |
1. Whether a law that categorically disallows religious exemptions but permits secular exemptions and other comparable secular activity violates the F… |
| 24-1186 |
Alvin Boone, et al. v. Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health religious-exemption workplace-safety |
1. Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent… |
| 24-1114 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate |
(1) Whether a State may avoid judicial review of an authorizing statute that categorically prohibits religious accommodations to compulsory vaccinatio… |
| 24A987 |
Joseph Miller, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
amish-community employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-exemption vaccination-mandate |
Question not identified. |
| 24-319 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Adrienne A. Harris, Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
2024-09-20 |
GVR |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
employment-division-v-smith first-amendment neutrality-test religious-exemption religious-organizations strict-scrutiny |
In 2017, New York promulgated a regulation mandating that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 52.1… |
| 24-154 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-08-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (43)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption |
1. Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the or… |
| 24-113 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affordable-care-act civil-rights-standing-mootness-due-process-janus-v constitutional-rights mootness religious-exemption standing state-actor |
1) Is it a proper exercise of discretion for an Appeals Court to sanction raising the bar presented by the elements of standing and mootness to a virt… |
| 24A90 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Adrienne A. Harris, Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
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abortion-coverage employment-regulation first-amendment free-exercise health-insurance religious-exemption |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1067 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment free-exercise ministerial-exception religious-exemption statutory-interpretation unemployment-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-643 |
We The Patriots USA, Inc., et al. v. Connecticut Office of Early Childhood Development, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights free-exercise generally-applicable legacy-exemptions neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-law rational-basis religious-exemption smith-precedent smith-v-employment-division vaccination-mandate |
Concerned about falling vaccination rates in its schools, Connecticut repealed its 62-year-old religious exemption to its school vaccination requireme… |
| 23-5669 |
Steven Grimm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 |
1. Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for comp… |
| 23-154 |
Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. v. Hunter Doster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process military military-vaccination mootness mootness-doctrine munsingwear-doctrine preliminary-injunction religious-exemption standing vacatur |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… |
| 22-461 |
Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy |
I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their emplo… |
| 21-1143 |
Dr. A., et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Relisted (10) |
administrative-rule covid-19 covid-vaccine-mandate employment-division-v-smith free-exercise free-exercise-clause medical-exemption religious-exemption secular-conduct vaccine-mandate |
Using its emergency regulatory powers, New York has imposed a COVID vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, but provided no religious exemption. Worker… |
| 21-1003 |
F. F., as Parent of Y. F., et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
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constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause narrow-tailoring religious-bias religious-exemption school-vaccination strict-scrutiny vaccination-requirement |
Does New York's religious exemption repeal violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause because (1) either (a) it allows for secular exemptions … |
| 21-958 |
A. A. v. M. A. |
New Jersey |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule free-speech freedom-of-religion medical-exemption religious-exemption sincerity-test vaccination-mandate |
It is of national importance for this Court to determine
if the sincerity of people's religious objection to vaccination
should be tested and, if so… |
| 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… |
| 20-1501 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Shirin Emami, Acting Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
2021-04-27 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
abortion abortion-mandate employment-division-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech health-insurance religious-autonomy religious-exemption smith-v-oregon |
In 2017, New York promulgated a regulation mandating that employer health insurance plans cover abortions. N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 11, § 52.1… |
| 19-1053 |
Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affordable-care-act contraception contraceptive-coverage federal-regulation health-insurance health-plans regulatory-authority regulatory-requirement religious-exemption religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra standing |
Whether the federal government lawfully exempted religious objectors from the regulatory requirement to provide health plans that include contraceptiv… |
| 19-1040 |
March for Life Education and Defense Fund v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abortion administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-rights contraception contraceptive-mandate due-process federal-regulations healthcare healthcare-coverage moral-objection moral-objections religious-exemption standing |
1. Whether states have Article III standing to challenge the religious and moral exemptions based on a hypothetical increase in their discretionary, v… |
| 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… |
| 18A1256 |
George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. |
Idaho |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-division-v-smith free-exercise-clause generally-applicable-law neutral-law religious-exemption social-security-number |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1192 |
The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing |
Since 2011, the federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans that include contraceptive cover… |