religious-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…