Seventh Circuit Roundup: April Cases Include Major Decisions on Religious Accommodations and Article III Standing

The second episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup covers three important Seventh Circuit decisions issued in April – Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corp., Pucillo v. National Credit Systems, and Indiana Right to Life v. Morales.

In the first case, a split 2-1 panel rejected a public schoolteacher’s Title VII religious-accommodation claim, which arose after the teacher objected to his school’s policy requiring teachers to refer to students, including transgender students, by the names registered in the school’s official student database. The latter two cases, meanwhile, address cutting-edge standing issues: Pucillo concerns whether unsolicited debt-collection letters cause injuries sufficiently “concrete” to create standing, and Indiana Right to Life concerns what a plaintiff must show to establish standing to bring a pre-enforcement constitutional challenge to a state statute. Our team provides an interesting and in-depth discussion of the reasoning and consequences of these significant decisions.

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