John Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Co, No. 21-2475 (7th Cir. 2023)

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United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Chicago, Illinois 60604 July 28, 2023 ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge MICHAEL B. BRENNAN, Circuit Judge AMY J. ST. EVE, Circuit Judge No. 21-2475 JOHN M. KLUGE, Plaintiff-Appellant, Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. v. No. 1:19-CV-02462 BROWNSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP., Defendant-Appellee. Jane Magnus-Stinson, Judge. ORDER In light of the Supreme Court’s clarification in Groff v. DeJoy, 143 S. Ct. 2279 (2023), of the standard to be applied in Title VII cases for religious accommodation, our opinion and judgment in this case are vacated and this case is remanded for the district court to apply the clarified standard to the religious accommodation claim in the first instance. We leave to the district court’s discretion whether to reopen discovery on remand. No judge of the court1 having called for a vote on the Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc, filed by Plaintiff-Appellant on April 21, 2023, and all of the judges on the original panel having voted to deny the same, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc is DENIED. 1 Circuit Judge Doris L. Pryor did not participate in consideration of this petition.

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