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No Immunity for Washington Religious Name Retaliation
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 9
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that prisoners have a clearly established right to use legally adopted religious names and prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for violating that right. The court also held such prisoners did not have a clearly established right to notary …
Filed under:
Qualified Immunity,
Mail Regulations,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Names.
Location:
Washington.
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