religious-land-use

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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.