Back in June, I wrote about the Texas Supreme Court’s religion clause decision in Pleasant Glade Assembly of God v. Schubert, No. 05-0916, a case that received substantial media coverage (usually as “the exorcism case”).

Laura Schubert has now filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court. Schubert’s lead argument echoes the dissents of Justice Green and of Chief Justice Jefferson, each of whom argued that the Texas Supreme Court should have applied Employment Div., Dep’t of Human Res. of Oregon v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), to conclude that her claim did not violate the First Amendment because it turned on neutral principles of tort law.

Update: Links to the opinions and briefing at the Texas Supreme Court level are available here.

Possibly related posts:

1. Free Exercise Clause Bars False Imprisonment Claim: Pleasant Glade Assembly of God v. Schubert, No. 05-0916
2. The “Pole Tax” Petition for Review
3. New Petition: Brocail v. Detroit Tigers, Inc., No. 08-0926
4. SCOTUS petition challenging Texas’s parental-termination system
5. Petition about which website publishers get an interlocutory appeal as members of the media under Texas law