Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that South Carolina prison grooming policy banning beards does not violate free exercise clause
• observing that, under Smith, “a neutral, generally applicable law does not offend the Free Exercise Clause, even if the law has an incidental effect on religious practice”
• explaining that in a rational relationship test, “once the Department demonstrates it is pursuing a legitimate governmental objective, and demonstrates some minimally rational relationship between that objective and the means chosen to achieve that objective, we must approve of those means”
• “A law is considered neutral if it proscribes conduct without regard to whether that conduct is religiously motivated or not.”
• “A law is considered neutral if it proscribes conduct without regard to whether that conduct is religiously motivated or not.”
• classifying SCDC “Grooming Policy” as “neutral and generally applicable regulation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).