substantial-burden

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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…
24-1327 Spirit of Aloha Temple, a Hawaii Nonprofit Corporation, et al. v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived first-amendment municipal-jurisdiction religious-exercise rluipa substantial-burden zoning-permit Must a religious organization seeking to build a church prove that it is precluded from using other sites within a municipality's jurisdiction and/or …
23-1101 Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen District of Columbia 2024-04-10 Denied Response Waived alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden 1. Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief. 2. Whether the availability of alternative mea…
22-7780 John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al. Washington 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden A. WHETHER PRISON OFFICIALS CAN REQUIRE PRISONERS TO SHOW CENTRALITY IN W-DOC'S RRIS APPLICATION PROCESS FOR REQUESTING RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS, AND …
22-7614 Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA" ) and its compelling government interest/least restrictive means-test apply to protect a federal …
22-6230 Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process Question not identified.
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…
22-108 Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden 1. Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secula…
21-8180 Rives Grogan v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al…
21-1027 Green Haven Preparative Meeting, et al. v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise institutional-rights prison-ministry religious-organization standing substantial-burden 1. Does the standing of a religious organization to protect the fundamental practices of its faith from being abridged by the state cease at the priso…
20-1137 California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Amici (2) disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not "substantially burden…
20-6258 Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU…
18A1334 Robert E. Carter, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, Robert E v. Roman Lee Jones Seventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete diet-restriction first-amendment prisoner-rights religious-accommodation rluipa substantial-burden Question not identified.
18-9649 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-exercise halal-diet prison religious-freedom rluipa substantial-burden Whether RLUIPA prohibits the Defendants from placing a substantial burden upon Petitioner's religious exercise by feeding non-traditional inedible foo…
19A1052 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete Amici (1) execution-chamber first-amendment free-exercise-clause religious-chaplain RLUIPA substantial-burden Question not identified.