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RFRA TRO Granted
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 20
A federal district court in Arizona granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to an Arizona state prisoner who filed suit seeking relief for violation of his religious rights to a Kosher diet, to long hair, a colored head covering and to maintain a vow of poverty. Paul Luckette is an …
Filed under:
Food,
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Grooming,
Religious Diet,
Religious Property.
Locations:
Arizona,
Hawaii.
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