| 24-1140 |
Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa |
The gravamen of the institutionalized persons' 2021 complaint is that Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) is choosing not to follow the Religious La… |
| 23-1197 |
Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (37)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of RLUIPA. |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
(1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 18USC 10), apply to 18USC 722(c)(G)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Con… |
| 22-309 |
City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance |
The "equal terms" provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) states that "[n]o government shall impose or … |
| 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… |
| 20-6542 |
Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing |
1. WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURT JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN ITS COMMON PLEAS COURT, COMMONWEALTH COURT AND STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CREATED A HANDS OFF … |
| 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… |
| 19-8246 |
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.… |
| 18-944 |
Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code |
What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim.
Whether Tree of Life established a facial or as-applied equal-terms violation here. |