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Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Ohio, Stark County, No. 2024CA00040 · judgment November 12, 2024
Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025
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
The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution when it treats one religious organization differently from another.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Eric Jonathan Allen
For respondent
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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, December 8, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Dec 08 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 18 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Jun 02 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 3, 2025)