Docket nos. 85-1722 End date 1987 | Citations 482 U.S. 342 (more) | |
Full case name O'Lone, Administrator, Leesburg Prison Complex, et al. v. Estate of Shabazz, et al. Majority Rehnquist, joined by White, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia Dissent Brennan, joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens Similar Sherbert v Verner, Wisconsin v Yoder, Bob Jones University v United, Employment Division v Smith, Church of the Lukumi Babalu A | ||
O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482 U.S. 342 (1987), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the constitutionality of prison regulations. The court ruled that it was not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests."
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