St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond
Consolidated with:
Issue: (1) Whether the academic and pedagogical choices of a privately owned and run school constitute state action simply because it contracts with the state to offer a free educational option for interested students; and (2) whether a state violates the First Amendment's free exercise clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state"s charter-school program solely because the schools are religious, or instead a state can justify such an exclusion by invoking anti-establishment interests that go further than the First Amendment's establishment clause requires.
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 09/11/2024 | Application (24A264) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 23, 2024 to October 7, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch. |
| 09/19/2024 | Application (24A264) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until October 7, 2024. |
| 10/07/2024 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 8, 2024) |
| 10/29/2024 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 8, 2024 to December 9, 2024, submitted to The Clerk. |
| 10/30/2024 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 9, 2024. |
| 10/31/2024 | Brief amicus curiae of Manhattan Institute filed. VIDED. |
| 11/05/2024 | Brief amicus curiae of Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Inc. filed. VIDED. |
| 11/07/2024 | Brief amicus curiae of The Buckeye Institute filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amici curiae of Former Oklahoma Attorneys General John M. O'Connor & E. Scott Pruitt filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amici curiae of General Council of the Assemblies of God, et al. filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amici curiae of South Carolina, et al. filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amici curiae of Ryan Walters in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Oklahoma, et al. filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed. VIDED. |
| 11/08/2024 | Brief amici curiae of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, et al. filed. VIDED. |
| 12/09/2024 | Brief amicus curiae of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools filed. VIDED. |
| 12/09/2024 | Brief of respondent Gentner Drummond in opposition filed. |
| 12/23/2024 | Reply of petitioner St. Isidore Of Seville Catholic Virtual School filed. (Distributed) |
| 12/24/2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025. |
| 01/13/2025 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2025. |
| 01/21/2025 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025. |
| 01/24/2025 | Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 24-394 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. Petitioners' briefs on the merits are to be filed on or before Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Respondent's brief on the merits is to be filed on or before Monday, March 31, 2025. The reply briefs are to be received by the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m., Monday, April 21, 2025. VIDED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. |
| 01/24/2025 | Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 24-394. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 24-394. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.” |
| 02/24/2025 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. VIDED. |
| 03/03/2025 | Record requested from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. |
| 03/12/2025 | Amicus brief of The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, Abraham Knowledge Academy and The Religious Freedom Institute submitted. |
| 03/19/2025 | Record received from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and available with the Clerk (one box). |
| 03/19/2025 | CIRCULATED |
| 04/07/2025 | Amicus brief of Constitutional and Education Law Scholars submitted. |