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Denial of Religious Diet Violates First Amendment
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 18
The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that prison officials' denial of a religious diet violated the First Amendment by substantially burdening a state prisoner's religious beliefs. Arkansas state prisoner Kelvin Love is a self-proclaimed adherent of the "Hebrew religion." His study of the Old Testament has led ...
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