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Supreme Court justices, who have begun their new term. are: Seated from left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing from left are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Photo by Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States / UPI | License Photo Oct. 7 (UPI) — Native Americans trying to protect their sacred land, a Rastafarian prisoner who wants to sue correctional officers for shaving off his dreadlocks and Jewish professors seeking to drop union representation to protest alleged anti-Semitic conduct are among those asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal in their cases. The court’s 2024-25 term started Monday, and decisions are pending on whether to grant reviews in those cases, as well as many other religious liberty cases. In the previous term that began in October 2023, no religious liberty cases were on the Supreme Court docket, according to Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit public interest law firm. "That’s a big shift from the past dozen terms or so, […]