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The Washington Constitution provides that no public money shall be appropriated or applied to religious instruction. Following this constitutional command, Washington does not grant college scholarships to otherwise eligible students who are pursuing a degree in theology. Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment require the state to fund religious instruction, if it provides college scholarships for secular instruction?

Whether a public school policy creating a limited public forum that expressly bans religious groups from school facilities constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment freedom of speech. Whether allowing the Good News Club to use school facilities for meetings would have constituted a violation of the Establishment Clause.

Whether a public university can deny funds to a religious student group that it provides to nonreligious student groups.

Whether Title VII Section 702, which provides an exemption from Title VIIs prohibition against religious discrimination for religious organizations, violates the Establishment Clause.

Did New York City's decision to use Title I funds to pay salaries of parochial school teachers violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?

Whether a Connecticut statute providing Sabbath observers with an absolute and unqualified right not to work on their chosen Sabbath violated the Establishment Clause.

Whether a public university’s interest in maintaining a "strict separation of church and state" allows it to bar religious student groups from reserving facilities for worship.

Whether a Maryland statute prohibiting retail on Sunday, with some exceptions for food and other things constitutes a violation of the Fourteenth and First Amendments.

Whether a criminal defendant's First Amendment right to freedom of association prevents the prosecution from introducing irrelevant evidence of the defendant's gang membership.