Barclay-Rienzi_Appendix A - Boston College Article

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P
1	Case Name	Federal Court	Date	Reporter/ Citation	Federal RFRA claim raised in case (whether live or not)? Yes or No or State-[insert state]	RFRA claim decided on merits in this decision? Yes or No	What merits stage? MTD, MSJ, PI, trial, petition for rehearing en banc	RFRA claim successful at the current stage? Win or Loss	Contraception Mandate? Yes or No	Type of Claimant (individual, prisoner, organization)	Religious Affiliation	Nature of Claim (e.g., eagle feathers, contraceptive mandate, etc.)	Facts/Summary	Rationale for disposition (low priority for Chelise if fed RFRA decided on merits - so yes in columns E and F)	Exemption to Civil Rights Law Involved? (e.g., claimant doesn't have to comply with anti-discrimination laws because of religious beliefs)	Notes

2	A Woman's Friend Pregnancy Resource Clinic v. Harris	E.D.Cal.	December 21, 2015	153 F.Supp.3d 1168	No
3	Abdulqader v. U.S.	N.D.Tex.	April 07, 2015	2015 WL 1551080	Yes	No
4	Abeles v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority	C.A.4 (Va.)	January 26, 2017	676 Fed.Appx. 170	Yes	Yes	D's MSJ granted	Loss	No	Individual	Orthodox Jewish	Employment discrimination	Orthodox Jewish employee brought action against employer and two supervisors, asserting claims for religious discrimination under Title VII, civil rights deprivation under § 1983, and violations of federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and Virginia Religious Freedom Act.	There was no evidence that employer treated employee differently from any similarly-situated employees from outside her protected class, and employee did not have bona fide religious belief or practice that conflicted with an employment requirement.	No
5	Abeles v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority	E.D.Va.	April 01, 2016	2016 WL 6892103	Yes	No
6	Abordo v. Mobi PCS	D.Hawai'i	February 25, 2016	2016 WL 777921	No
7	Affordable Recovery Housing v. City of Blue Island	N.D.Ill.	March 23, 2016	2016 WL 1161271	State-Illinois
8	Affordable Recovery Housing v. City of Blue Island	C.A.7 (Ill.)	June 21, 2017	860 F.3d 580	State-Illinois
9	Affordable Recovery Housing v. City of Blue Island	N.D.Ill.	September 21, 2016	2016 WL 5171765	State-Illinois
10	Ajaj v. Federal Bureau of Prisons	D.Colo.	January 17, 2017	2017 WL 219343	Yes	No
11	Ajaj v. United States	D.Colo.	October 25, 2016	2016 WL 6212518	Yes	Yes	D's MTD denied	Win	No	Prisoner	Muslim	Prisoner rights	Plaintiff Ahmad Ajaj, a Muslim prisoner in solitary confinement at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Security prison (“ADX”) in Florence, Colorado, filed suit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and Warden John Oliver. Plaintiff alleged that these defendants violated (1) his First Amendment right to free exercise of religion and (2) the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, by refusing to distribute his medications to him before dawn and after sunset so that he could maintain his religious fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2013 and 2014.	Three allegations within plaintiff's RFRA claim—that (1) the BOP failed to provide medication at certain times during Sunnah, (2) failed to provide a Halal diet with Halal meat, and (3) prevented plaintiff from having access to an imam—all meet the “substantial burden” requirement because they meet that standard under the First Amendment. She also finds that the final aspect of plaintiff's claim (i.e. that the BOP prevents plaintiff from engaging in daily group prayer) likewise qualifies as a “substantial burden” under the Tenth Circuit's recent analysis of that standard in Williams v. Wilkinson. Furthermore, Judge Mix finds that plaintiff has plausibly pled both the absence of a compelling interest and that there are less-restrictive means because he sufficiently demonstrates that the BOP's actions with respect to that final allegation may not be reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.	No
12	Ajaj v. United States	S.D.Ill.	November 25, 2014	2014 WL 6685212	State-Illinois
13	Ajala v. Boughton	W.D.Wis.	April 22, 2015	2015 WL 1814946	No
14	Ajala v. West	W.D.Wis.	December 22, 2014	2014 WL 7338782	No
15	Ajala v. West	W.D.Wis.	May 04, 2015	106 F.Supp.3d 976	No
16	Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program v. SafetyNet Youthcare, Inc.	S.D.Ala.	February 11, 2015	2015 WL 566946	No
17	Alford v. Providence Hospital	D.D.C.	July 25, 2014	60 F.Supp.3d 118	No
18	Ali v. Stephens	C.A.5 (Tex.)	May 02, 2016	822 F.3d 776	No
19	Ali v. Stephens	E.D.Tex.	September 26, 2014	69 F.Supp.3d 633	No
20	Allah v. Colorado Department of Corrections	D.Colo.	April 22, 2015	2015 WL 1867565	No
21	American Humanist Ass'n v. U.S.	D.Or.	October 30, 2014	63 F.Supp.3d 1274	No
22	Ameur v. Gates	C.A.4 (Va.)	July 16, 2014	759 F.3d 317	Yes	No
23	Amos v. Stolzer	E.D.Mo.	November 18, 2014	2014 WL 6473596	Yes	No
24	Andersen v. Montes	E.D.Cal.	March 21, 2017	2017 WL 1064668	Yes	No
25	Andon, LLC v. City of Newport News, Va.	E.D.Va.	November 20, 2014	63 F.Supp.3d 630	No
26	Annex Medical, Inc. v. Burwell	C.A.8 (Minn.)	September 05, 2014	2014 WL 4378763	Yes	Yes	Remanded to determine standing	Loss	Yes	Corporation	Christian	Contraceptive mandate	Employer that sponsored employees' group health insurance plan, and its controlling shareholder, brought action challenging contraceptive mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, David S. Doty, J., 2013 WL 203526, denied plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction prohibiting government from enforcing contraceptive mandate. Plaintiffs appealed.	It was "unclear whether Annex's alleged injury is caused by the government defendants and redressable by the federal courts."	No
27	Annex Medical, Inc. v. Burwell	C.A.8 (Minn.)	October 06, 2014	769 F.3d 578	Yes	Yes	Remanded to determine standing	Loss	Yes	Corporation	Unknown	Contraceptive mandate	Employer that sponsored employees' group health insurance plan, and its controlling shareholder, brought action challenging the mandate. The district court denied plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs appealed.	District court's order denying preliminary injunction should be vacated in light of Hobby Lobby.	No
28	Arendas v. Lewis	D.Colo.	November 29, 2016	2016 WL 6962878	No
29	Armstrong v. Burwell	D.Colo.	September 29, 2014	2014 WL 5317354	Yes	Yes	Permanent Injunction granted	Win	Yes	Corporation	Christian	Contraceptive mandate	Plaintiffs, Cherry Creek Mortgage Co., Inc. and its owners, sued the government to enjoin application of certain parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively the “Affordable Care Act”) to them. Following Hobby Lobby, parties stipulated that permanent injunction could be entered in light of the decision.	The Supreme Court held that the regulations, referred to as “the contraceptive mandate,” violated the plaintiffs' rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb et seq. It appears to this Court, as it apparently does to the parties in this case, that the holding applies as well to the present plaintiffs.	No
30	Armstrong v. Jewell	D.R.I.	December 07, 2015	151 F.Supp.3d 242	Yes	Yes	MTD granted	Loss	No	Individuals	Healing Church	Drugs (Cannabis)	Church members brought pro se action against Secretary of the Interior, Director of National Park Service, and site manager of Rhode Island's federal park, seeking to conduct cannabis-related religious activity at Rhode Island's federal park. Defendants moved to dismiss for failure to state a claim.	Church members failed to state claim that government's refusal to permit use of marijuana at national memorial violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).	No
31	Armstrong v. Kilmartin	D.R.I.	May 17, 2017	2017 WL 2178359	No
32	Association of Christian Schools International v. Burwell	D.Colo.	November 26, 2014	75 F.Supp.3d 1284	Yes	Yes	Denied PI	Loss	Yes	Organizations	Catholic	Contraceptive mandate	Employers, nonprofit Catholic organizations that objected on religious grounds to certain methods of contraception that they believed were abortifacients, brought action against federal officers and agencies, alleging that contraceptive coverage mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which required coverage of contraceptive services for beneficiaries in group health plans, imposed a substantial burden on their religious exercise in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Organizations filed motions for preliminary injunction.	Employers did not have substantial likelihood of success on merits of claim that mandate imposed a substantial burden on their religious exercise.	No
33	Atkinson v. Mackinnon	W.D.Wis.	May 18, 2016	2016 WL 2901753	Yes	Yes	Survives D's MSJ	Win	No	Prisoner	Muslim	Employment discrimination	Prisoner claimed that state prison officials removed him from his job because he is a Muslim.	(Court only ruled on nondispositive pretrial motions)	No
34	Atkinson v. MacKinnon	W.D.Wis.	June 24, 2016	2016 WL 3566278	Yes	No
35	Atkinson v. MacKinnon	W.D.Wis.	November 12, 2015	2015 WL 7176381	Yes	No
36	Atkinson v. Mackinnon	W.D.Wis.	July 29, 2016	2016 WL 4082742	Yes	No
37	Atkinson v. Mackinnon	W.D.Wis.	July 15, 2016	2016 WL 3920497	Yes	No
38	Atkinson v. Mackinnon	W.D.Wis.	February 06, 2015	2015 WL 506193	Yes	No
39	Ave Maria School of Law v. Burwell	M.D.Fla.	October 28, 2014	2014 WL 5471054	Yes	Yes	PI granted	Win	Yes			Contraceptive mandate				Relied on EWTN which was based on RFRA merits
40	Ave Maria University v. Burwell	M.D.Fla.	October 28, 2014	63 F.Supp.3d 1363	Yes	Yes	PI granted	Win	Yes			Contraceptive mandate
41	Avilez v. TDCJ-CID	N.D.Tex.	March 12, 2015	2015 WL 10845897	State-Texas
42	Aziz v. Trump	E.D.Va.	February 13, 2017	234 F.Supp.3d 724	Yes	No
43	Aziz v. Trump	E.D.Va.	February 03, 2017	231 F.Supp.3d 23	Yes	No
44	Balcar v. Smith	W.D.Ky.	January 26, 2017	2017 WL 380931	Yes	No
45	Banks v. U.S. Marshals Service	W.D.Pa.	November 03, 2015	2015 WL 6736816	Yes	No
46	Banks v. United States Marshals Service	W.D.Pa.	February 24, 2016	2016 WL 1393398	Yes	No
47	Banks v. United States Marshals Service	W.D.Pa.	February 16, 2016	2016 WL 1394354	Yes	No
48	Barber v. Bryant	S.D.Miss.	August 01, 2016	2016 WL 4096726	State-Mississippi
49	Barber v. Bryant	S.D.Miss.	June 30, 2016	193 F.Supp.3d 677	State-Mississippi
50	Barrera-Avila v. Watts	S.D.Ga.	March 31, 2017	2017 WL 1240763	Yes	No
51	Barrera-Avila v. Watts	S.D.Ga.	March 08, 2017	2017 WL 933123	Yes	No
52	Bartl v. Cook County Clerk of Ciruit Court, Illinois	C.D.Ill.	June 02, 2015	2015 WL 3505255	State-Illinois
53	Battle Mountain Band of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians v. United States Bureau of Land Mangement	D.Nev.	December 09, 2016	2016 WL 7197382	Yes	No
54	Battle Mountain Band v. United States Bureau of Land Management	D.Nev.	August 26, 2016	2016 WL 4497756	Yes	Yes	TRO denied	Loss	No
55	Bayadi v. Clarke	W.D.Va.	March 22, 2017	2017 WL 1091946	No
56	Bear v. County of Jackson	D.S.D.	January 04, 2017	2017 WL 52575	No
57	Beattie v. Line Mountain School Dist.	M.D.Pa.	July 10, 2014	2014 WL 3400975	No
58	Beattie v. Line Mountain School Dist.	M.D.Pa.	December 16, 2014	2014 WL 7183343	No
59	Becker v. Reddish	M.D.Fla.	March 22, 2017	2017 WL 1080036	State-Florida
60	Bensalem Masjid, Inc. v. Bensalem Township	E.D.Pa.	September 22, 2015	2015 WL 5611546	State-Pennsylvania
61	Berger v. United States Department of Justice	E.D.N.C.	June 29, 2016	2016 WL 3620752	Yes	No
62	Bible Believers v. Wayne County	C.A.6 (Mich.)	August 27, 2014	765 F.3d 578	No
63	Bible Believers v. Wayne County, Mich.	C.A.6 (Mich.)	October 28, 2015	805 F.3d 228	No
64	Billy v. Curry County Board of County Commissioners	D.N.M.	September 30, 2014	2014 WL 11430973	No
65	Blake v. Rubenstein	S.D.W.Va.	April 05, 2016	2016 WL 5660355	No
66	Boardman v. C.I.R.	C.A.9 (Cal.)	March 12, 2015	597 Fed.Appx. 413	Yes	No
67	Boatwright v. Jacks	D.D.C.	March 09, 2017	239 F.Supp.3d 229	Yes	No
68	Bonelli v. Government of the Virgin Islands	V.I.Super.	March 19, 2015	2015 WL 1407259	Yes	No
69	Bormes v. U.S.	C.A.7 (Ill.)	July 22, 2014	759 F.3d 793	No
70	Bouman v. Broome	S.D.Miss.	September 23, 2015	2015 WL 5604275	Yes	Yes	Magistrate's R&R grant summary judgment in favor of D	Loss	No	Prisoner	Jewish	Prisoner rights	Plaintiff attempted to take his Kosher Passover meal outside Food Service dining area so that he could observe his Kosher-meal practices in his cell. He was stopped from doing so by Defendant. Plaintiff sought damages, claiming violation of free exercise rights, RFRA, and the Equal Protection Clause.	Found that decision by officials was appropriate (and satisfied the four factors regarding the reasonableness of the regulations pursuant to Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 89 (1987)), and did not unreasonably restrict Plaintiff's First Amendment rights.	No
71	Brandt v. Burwell	W.D.Pa.	August 20, 2014	43 F.Supp.3d 462	Yes	Yes	Permanent Injunction granted	Win	Yes			Contraceptive mandate
72	Braun v. Abele	E.D.Wis.	June 25, 2015	2015 WL 3904960	Yes	Yes	D's MSJ granted	Loss	No
73	Braun v. Terry	E.D.Wis.	November 30, 2015	148 F.Supp.3d 793	Yes	No
74	Brinkman v. Linderman	C.A.9 (Ariz.)	September 03, 2015	616 Fed.Appx. 227	No
75	Brown v. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration	C.A.8 (Ark.)	February 03, 2017	674 Fed.Appx. 599	Yes (and State-Arkansas)	Yes	D's MSJ Granted	Loss	No	Individual	Unknown	Petitioning on Private Property	Claims based on a challenge to an Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration policy prohibiting, inter alia, collecting signatures on petitions at State revenue offices located on leased property	After carefully reviewing the record and the parties' arguments on appeal, we conclude that summary judgment was warranted. See Beaulieu v. Ludeman, 690 F.3d 1017, 1024 (8th Cir. 2012) (standard of review). Specifically, we conclude that the undisputed evidence showed that the private property immediately surrounding the revenue office where Brown solicited signatures was a nonpublic forum, see United States v. Kokinda, 497 U.S. 720, 726–29, 110 S.Ct. 3115, 111 L.Ed.2d 571 (1990) (plurality opinion) (interior sidewalk on postal service property leading from parking area to front door of post office was nonpublic forum); Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Def. & Educ. Fund, Inc. 473 U.S. 788, 802, 105 S.Ct. 3439, 87 L.Ed.2d 567 (1985) (“government does not create a public forum by inaction or by permitting limited discourse, but only by intentionally opening a nontraditional forum for public discourse”); that the policy was reasonably related to the State's interest in running revenue offices, and was viewpoint neutral, see Kokinda, 497 U.S. at 730, 110 S.Ct. 3115 (nonpublic forum speech regulation must be reasonable and “not an effort to suppress expression merely because public officials oppose the speaker's view”); Initiative & Referendum Inst. v. United States Postal Serv., 685 F.3d 1066, 1069, 1073 (D.C. Cir. 2012) (ban on collecting signatures on post office interior sidewalk was facially reasonable and valid); and that the policy neither interfered with the free exercise of his religion, nor substantially burdened a sincere religious exercise or belief of Brown's.	No
76	Brown v. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration	W.D.Ark.	April 08, 2016	180 F.Supp.3d 602	Yes (and State-Arkansas)	Yes	D's MSJ granted and P's MSJ denied	Loss	No
77	Brown v. Bureau of Prisons	D.Conn.	March 31, 2017	2017 WL 1234104	Yes	No
78	Brown v. Ebbert	M.D.Pa.	January 12, 2016	2016 WL 703014	No
79	Brown v. Jones	N.D.Fla.	September 26, 2016	2016 WL 6208320	No
80	Brown v. Lake	D.Ariz.	December 10, 2015	2015 WL 8479068	Yes	No
81	Brown v. Prisons	D.Conn.	March 31, 2016	2016 WL 1305102	Yes	No
82	Bryan Kawand Sims v. Owens	M.D.Ga.	November 02, 2015	2015 WL 6675567	No
83	Burns v. Hickenlooper	D.Colo.	July 23, 2014	2014 WL 3634834	No
84	Bush v. Prison	M.D.Pa.	August 29, 2016	2016 WL 4502379	Yes	No
85	Butts v. Martin	E.D.Tex.	March 30, 2015	2015 WL 1457441	No
86	California-Nevada Annual Conference of the Methodist Church v. City and County of San Francisco	N.D.Cal.	November 24, 2014	74 F.Supp.3d 1144	No
87	Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High School Athletic Association, Inc.	M.D.Fla.	June 07, 2017	2017 WL 2458314	State-Florida
88	Carcano v. McCrory	M.D.N.C.	August 26, 2016	203 F.Supp.3d 615	Yes	No
89	Carpenter Properties, Inc. v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.	S.D.Miss.	March 30, 2015	2015 WL 13283381	No
90	Casey v. Stephens	S.D.Tex.	February 09, 2016	161 F.Supp.3d 496	No
91	Catholic Benefits Ass'n LCA v. Burwell	W.D.Okla.	December 29, 2014	81 F.Supp.3d 1269	Yes	Yes	PI granted	Win	Yes			Contraceptive mandate
92	Catholic Health Care System v. Burwell	C.A.2	August 07, 2015	796 F.3d 207	Yes	Yes	Reversed grant of P's MSJ	Loss	Yes			Contraceptive mandate
93	Cavanaugh v. Bartelt	D.Neb.	April 12, 2016	178 F.Supp.3d 819	No
94	Chandler v. Alabama Dept. of Corrections	N.D.Ala.	August 05, 2014	2014 WL 4049981	Yes	No
95	Chesser v. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons	D.Colo.	February 22, 2017	2017 WL 698794	Yes	Yes	MTD denied on RFRA claim	Win	No
96	Chesser v. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons	D.Colo.	March 25, 2016	2016 WL 1170448	Yes	No
97	Chesser v. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons	D.Colo.	June 01, 2017	2017 WL 2377122	Yes	No
98	Chesser v. Rivas	S.D.Ill.	November 02, 2016	2016 WL 6471431	Yes	Yes	Claims dismissed	Loss	No
99	Chesser v. Walton	S.D.Ill.	July 08, 2015	2015 WL 4127152	Yes	No
100	Chesser v. Walton	S.D.Ill.	November 02, 2016	2016 WL 6471435	Yes	No