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Cert Denial: Apache Stronghold: When Sacred Sites Meet Corporate Mining | Decision Date: 5/27/25
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Apache Stronghold, Petitioner v. United States, et al. | Order Date: 5/23/25 | Case No. 24-291
Link to Docket: Here.
Question Presented: Whether the government “substantially burdens” religious exercise under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA"), or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when it singles out a sacred site for complete physical destruction, ending specific religious rituals forever.
Result: Denial of certiorari.
Voting Breakdown: 6-2. Justice Gorsuch with whom Justice Thomas joined, dissented from the denial of certiorari.
Link to Decision: Here.
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