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8 Jun 2015, 4:25 am by Amy Howe
United States, involving the prosecution of threats made on Facebook. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 3:03 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Beard, last noted here.Yesterday, June 3, Judge Chang signed the stipulated judgment. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 10:57 am
We haven’t seen courts treat the strict scrutiny test in RFRA laws very seriously in the past, which is why we’ve avoided the “anarchy” Justice Scalia warned about in Employment Div. v. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 7:27 am by Amy Howe
Hobbs, holding that Arkansas prison officials cannot prohibit a Muslim inmate from growing a half-inch beard, drew commentary from Dawinder Sidhu, who at Religion and Politics suggests that “[a] plausible claim can also be made that Holt foreshadows the end of affirmative action in the United States. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 7:52 am by Howard Friedman
The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further consideration in light of Holt v. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 3:11 pm by Guest Blogger
And the Court pointed to the fact that numerous other states and the federal prison system permit beards. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 6:39 am
Hobbs, which involved a Muslim prisoner’s wearing a beard). [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 2:46 am by Amy Howe
Hobbs, it ruled that Arkansas must allow a Muslim inmate to grow a half-inch beard. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 8:17 pm by Joy Waltemath
A unanimous Supreme Court found that a state department of corrections’ grooming policy for inmates could not show that its substantial burden on the religious exercise of the claimant, a Muslim prisoner who sought to grow a ½-inch beard, was the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling government interest. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 4:20 pm
Holt is an example of this trend: 50 years ago there were likely no observant Muslim inmates in the State of Arkansas, so the question of Muslim inmates’ beards simply did not arise. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 2:26 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  No dice as to the States, said the Supreme Court in City of Boerne v. [read post]