religious-practice
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5236 | Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment | Did the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes substantial burden upon religious practice and did it erroneously find impermissible bind… |
| 24A722 | Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Presumed Complete | court-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion jurisdiction-challenge religious-freedom religious-practice | Whether the US District Court is bound by 42 USC 21b § 2000bb, that government, including the courts, shall not substantially burden a person's exerci… | |
| 21-7282 | Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa | 1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim… |
| 19-805 | Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution | (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh… |
| 19-40 | Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor | California | 2019-07-05 | Denied | church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice | For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness… |