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Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al.
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B307452 · judgment October 22, 2020
Certiorari denied · October 4, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious “arbitration” where arbiters must be members of that religion in good standing and must apply religious principles to resolve a dispute involving violations of civil law.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Marci A. Hamilton
University of Pennsylvania
For respondent
William H. Forman
Winston & Strawn LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Proceedings
- Oct 04 2021Petition DENIED.
- Jul 20 2021Reply of petitioner Valerie Haney filed. (Distributed)
- Jul 14 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
- Jun 25 2021Brief of respondent Church of Scientology International in opposition filed.
- Jun 09 2021Brief amici curiae of Constitutional Law, Torts & Religion Professors and Scholars filed.
- May 10 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 25, 2021)