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Supreme Court Rulings Trickle Down: RFRA
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 5
In the April, 1997, issue we reported the seventh circuit's ruling in O'Leary v. Mack, 80 F.3d 1175 (7th Cir. 1996) where the appeals court interpreted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The U.S. supreme court has vacated that ruling for reconsideration in light of City of Boerne v. Flores, 117 ...
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