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• concluding that the government’s refusal to recognize a condemned prisoner’s le- gally changed religious name within the prison violated his consti- tutional right to the free exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
• recognizing, in a § 1983 case brought by a death-row prisoner, that the deferential Turner standard differs from “the strict standards of scrutiny applicable to the con stitutional rights of persons in free society”
• “[Hakim] obtained from the State of Florida a legal name change to his Muslim name.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).