religious-rights
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5869 | Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-13 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor | 1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 22-6054 | Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating as an abuse of discretion the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy where the district co… |
| 21-8251 | John L. Miller v. S. Acosta, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process judicial-bias religious-rights standing | Whether prison-staff cooks who maintain an official list of inmates approved for religious meals, nonetheless deprived those inmates of their religiou… |
| 21-8138 | Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights | 1. May a district court , upon the prosecutor's demand that a defendant's Bible be removed from the courtroom during a criminal trial, constitutionall… |
| 21-886 | Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company | Wisconsin | 2021-12-15 | Denied | civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement | Introductory Statement This is a liberty based "due process" case. Enactment by the Wisconsin legislature of the Wisconsin Marital Property Act in 19… | |
| 21-5592 | John H. Ramirez v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (17)IFP | compelling-governmental-interest compelling-state-interest execution-protocol free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech least-restrictive-means pastoral-support religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a religious-rights rluipa | 1. Under the Free Exercise Clause and Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc–2000cc–5 (2000), does the S… |
| 20-7108 | Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. | Connecticut | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights | WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS, DENYING USED RELIGIOUS/NON-RELIGIOUS BOOKS FROM PUBLISHER… |
| 20-5899 | Bodhisattva Skandha v. William Bates | Massachusetts | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal due-process judicial-procedure pure-land-buddhism religious-rights standing trial-court trial-court-discretion | Whether The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion #1 : By Dismissing The Case? Whether The Defendant Denied The Plaintiff The #2: Right to Practice Pure … |
| 18-959 | Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks | Colorado | 2019-01-24 | Denied | classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights | Whether extracorporeal embryos created during marriage are persons or a property. Whether classifying extracorporeal embryos as property and permitti… |