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Case Updates
Loaded on March 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 11
Women Prisoners : In the November, 1995, edition of PLN we reported the appeal court's decision in Pargo v. Elliot , 49 F.3d 1355 (8th Cir. 1995) in which the appeals court reversed and remanded the case for the lower court to determine whether women prisoners in Iowa were similarly …
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Names.
Locations:
Iowa,
Washington.
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