Father John J. O'Malley v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh

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• “[A] clergyman [lacks] a First Amendment right . . . to conduct religious services and offer religious counsel in a state institution.”
• “[T]here is no principle in the law granting to clerics an absolute right to enter a prison, and Fathers O’Malley and Taylor have no constitutional right to enter Western Penitentiary.”
• first quoting United States v. Raines, 362 U.S. 17, 22 (1960) and McGowan v. State of Md., 366 U.S. 420, 429 (1961); then citing C. ANTIEAU, FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS: CIVIL PRACTICE § 31 (1971)

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