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John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 24-1989 · judgment January 27, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Questions presented
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Whether the removal from a cemetery of an irreplaceable religious resource memorializing the dead, leaving behind an empty stone base, injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant.
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Whether, if symbolic banishment and stigmatic proclamation for an unadjudicated crime by Congress are punishments constituting a Bill of Attainder, the descendants of attainted dead may be injured through defamatory stigmatization, including of their mourning practices.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Patrick Moran
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 6, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 06 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 10 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Sep 02 2025Waiver of right of respondent Hegseth, Sec. of Defense, et al. to respond filed.
- Jun 28 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 17, 2025)