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Cutter v. Wilkinson, No. 03-9877 (U.S. Supreme Court) (544 U.S. 709; 125 S.Ct. 2113) (May 31, 2005) (Justice Ginsburg)

Loaded on June 7, 2005 published in Punch and Jurists May 16, 2005
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).

Here the Court reversed a Sixth Circuit decision which held that section 3 of the RLUIP was facially unconstitutional, thereby upholding a Federal law that requires State prison officials to remove unneeded restrictions on religious exercises.

In this unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld a five-year old federal …

 

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