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· 1/13/2012

Omar Grayson v. Harold Schuler

Citations

  • 666 F.3d 450
  • 2012 WL 130454
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 730

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “the Act can no longer do [a plaintiff] any good” when “he’s since been released from prison”
  • concluding that “[RLUIPA] does not create a cause of action against state employees in their personal capacity.”
  • finding that policy allowing Rastafarians to maintain long hair but denying the privilege to sincere African Hebrew Israelite of Jerusalem was arbitrary discrimination
  • observing that completely “scrupulous . . . observance” cannot be the standard
  • noting that the First Amendment protects the religious rights of heretics
  • explaining how a prison’s unequal treatment of different religions “could not reasonably be thought consti- tutional”

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Judges: Posner, Rovner, Hamilton

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