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Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Prisoner Preliminary Injunction on Religious Issues
Loaded on May 1, 2020
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2020, page 40
Filed under:
RLUIPA,
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
Location:
Arkansas.
by Anthony W. Accurso
On June 6, 2019 the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied a prisoner’s appeal of a circuit court’s refusal to issue a preliminary injunction regarding Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) policies as applied to his free exercise claims as a follower of the Nation of Islam (NOI). ...
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