MCRANEY v. NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD

No. 19-60293.

980 F.3d 1066 (2020)

Will MCRANEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD OF the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED November 25, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Harvey Barton, II , Trial Attorney, Barton Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Pascagoula, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Matthew T. Martens, Esq. , Attorney, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Joshua Jerome Wiener, Esq. , Kathleen Ingram Carrington , Donna Brown Jacobs, Esq. , Butler Snow, L.L.P., Ridgeland, MS, Justin E. Butterfield , Hiram Stanley Sasser, III , First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Natalie Deyo Thompson , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Austin, TX, for Amici Curiae State of Texas, State of Louisiana, and State of Mississippi.

Stephen M. Crampton, Esq. , General Counsel, Thomas More Society, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae Thomas More Society and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Before Clement, Higginson, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.


The court having been polled at the request of one of its members, and a majority of the judges who are in regular active service and not disqualified not having voted in favor (Fed. R. App. P. 35 and 5th Circ. R. 35), the petition for rehearing en banc is DENIED.

In the en banc poll, 8 judges voted in favor of rehearing...

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