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Religious Name Changes Allowed
The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that a Virginia statute prohibiting prisoners from changing their names while imprisoned was unconstitutional. Prisoners were forbidden from changing their names for religious or other reasons and would have their mail rejected if they did. The district court held the law ...
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