religious-exercise
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-965 | Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | chilling-effect constitutional-injury first-amendment land-use-finality religious-exercise williamson-county-doctrine | Whether the First Amendment's established chilling-effect doctrine—under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental ri… | |
| 25-190 | John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment | 1. Whether the removal from a cemetery of an irreplaceable religious resource memorializing the dead, leaving behind an empty stone base, injures the … |
| 25-113 | Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Pending | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny | Petitioners Breanna Renteria and Laura Smith joined a ministry with fellow Christian believers to share healthcare costs. Petitioners' religious belie… |
| 24-1327 | Spirit of Aloha Temple, a Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation, et al. v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | first-amendment municipal-jurisdiction religious-exercise rluipa substantial-burden zoning-permit | Must a religious organization seeking to build a church prove that it is precluded from using other sites within a municipality's jurisdiction and/or … |
| 24-291 | Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Amici (15)Relisted (18) | free-exercise-clause government-action native-american-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site | Whether the government "substantially burdens" religious exercise under RFRA, or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when… |
| 23-7360 | Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination | I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the Third Circuit and Fourth Circuit concerning whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recus… |
| 23-1101 | Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen | District of Columbia | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden | 1. Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief. 2. Whether the availability of alternative mea… |
| 23-6429 | Jan M. Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-remedies due-process free-exercise free-exercise-clause mailbox-rule property-rights religious-exercise rluipa summary-judgment | WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DISTRICT-COURT -FAILED TO UTILIZE THE,"MAILBOX RULE", WITHIN PLAINTIFFS TIMELY SUBMISSION OF HIS ADMINISTRATIVE RE-MEDIES/EXHAUS… |
| 23A361 | Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights first-amendment government-petition pro-se-litigation religious-exercise statute-of-limitations | Whether I, Petitioner Meghan Kelly averred good cause requiring this Court to grant my request for leave to exceed the page limit given: 1. the volum… | |
| 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 … |
| 22-260 | Burtonsville Associates, et al. v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | church-construction equal-terms equal-terms-claim free-exercise religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa substantial-burden zoning zoning-denial | 1. Must a congregation seeking to build a church prove that it had a reasonable expectation of zoning approval before it can establish that a zoning d… | |
| 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… |
| 21-6883 | 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… |
| 20-1137 | California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Amici (2) | disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden | Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not "substantially burden… |
| 20-694 | Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. | Wisconsin | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis | 1) Did the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Deprive and Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court's Refusal to Accept the Case for Review Permit the Deprivation of Pe… |
| 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… | |
| 20-14 | Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc., et al. v. Village of Pomona, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | article-iii article-iii-standing fair-housing-act free-exercise institutionalized-persons-act municipal-law property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa standing zoning-law | When it enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc, et seq. , Congress created a cause of acti… |
| 19-1387 | Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision | I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act "three-strikes" provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access t… | |
| 19-8695 | Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (12)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… |
| 19-8246 | Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Visiting policy violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act of 2000, U.S.C.… |
| 18-548 | Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing | The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects the free exercise of religion by prohibiting the government from substantially burdening a perso… |