Becket at the Supreme Court
Becket has an unparalleled, undefeated record at the U.S. Supreme Court. In the last ten years, Becket has won eight Supreme Court cases. Five of those victories were unanimous. Almost half of all Supreme Court victories for religious freedom over the last decade were Becket cases.
Beyond the headlines, Becket is also one of the few law firms in the country that have won emergency relief from the Supreme Court—and it has done so multiple times, staving off multimillion–dollar fines for the Little Sisters of the Poor, protecting religious colleges from illegal government regulations, and helping Jewish synagogues win the first-ever Supreme Court victory against discriminatory COVID-19 bans on religious worship.
Becket’s Supreme Court expertise is broad and deep, with decades of experience on cutting-edge religious liberty cases, training at top-tier law firms and in academia, numerous clerkships (including at the Supreme Court), and three attorneys who have personally provided winning oral arguments in the Supreme Court.
Mark Rienzi
McCullen v. Coakley
Eric Rassbach
Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru
Lori Windham
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
Setting good precedent for religious liberty at the Supreme Court is the most powerful way to protect our most fundamental freedom. That’s why we employ a focused strategy to bring the most salient issues and the strongest arguments to the nation’s highest court.
Stories
OUR CASES & BRIEFS
- Petitions Currently Before the Court
MERITS-STAGE PETITIONS AND BRIEFS
- Merits-stage cases where Becket served as counsel to a party
- Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James Catholic School v. Biel (2020)
- Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania (2020)
- Zubik v. Burwell (Little Sisters of the Poor) (2016), East Texas Baptist University v. Azar (Consolidated with Zubik), and Reaching Souls International and GuideStone v. Azar (2015)
- Holt v. Hobbs (2015)
- McCullen v. Coakley (2014)
- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
- Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (2012)
- Merits-stage cases where the Court relied on Becket’s friend-of-the-court brief
- Ramirez v. Collier (2022)
- Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta (2021)
- Harvest Rock Church v Newsom and South Bay Pentecostal v. Newsom (2021)
- Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020)
- American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019)
- Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer (2017)
- Heffernan v. City of Paterson (2016)
- Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. (2015)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
- Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015)
- Town of Greece v. Galloway (2014)
- Sossamon v. Texas (2011)
- Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011)
- Salazar v. Buono (2010)
- Pleasant Grove v. Summum (2009)
- Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
- Locke v. Davey (2004)
- Mitchell v. Helms (2000)
- Becket’s Amicus Briefs in Merits-stage cases
- City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024)
- Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre (2024)
- Groff v. DeJoy (2023)
- 303 Creative v. Elenis (2023)
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)
- Carson v. Makin (2022)
- Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022)
- Shurtleff v. City of Boston (2022)
- Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski (2021)
- Gateway City Church v. Newsom (2021)
- Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021)
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)
- Matal v. Tam (2017)
- Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. (2017)
- Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (2017)
- EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. (2015)
- Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International (2013)
- Negusie v. Mukasey (2009)
- Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita (2006)
- Cutter v. Wilkinson (2005)
- Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
- Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
- Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)
- Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
- Agostini v. Felton (1997)
CERT STAGE PETITIONS AND BRIEFS
- Cert-stage petitions that the Court granted, vacated, and remanded
- Cert-stage briefs in opposition filed by Becket
EMERGENCY APPLICATIONS
- Emergency Applications Granted by the Supreme Court
- Emergency Applications where Becket filed an amicus brief