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Ninth Circuit Reinstates Wiccan Prisoner’s Consent Decree
Loaded on Aug. 30, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2017, page 42
Filed under:
Consent Decrees (PLRA),
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Practices.
Location:
California.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sharply criticized a district court’s handling of a Wiccan prisoner’s lawsuit, and reinstated a longstanding consent decree in the case.
In 1993, California state prisoner William Rouser filed suit on behalf of himself and thirty other prisoners, seeking to compel prison …
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