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People stand in line to tour the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on Monday, when the court’s 2024-25 term started. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI 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, where we had a pretty steady flow of religious liberty cases," he said in a recent phone briefing about the Supreme Court term. Becket represents a group of Western Apache and their allies who are fighting to stop the construction of […]