Legal Opinion
Gartrell v. Ashcroft
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 19, 2002No. Civ.A.01-01895(HHK)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KENNEDY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs represent a class of prisoners from the District of Columbia whose avowed religious beliefs forbid them from cutting their hair or shaving their beards. They are in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and are housed in prison facilities run by the Virginia Department of Corrections (“VDOC”). Plaintiffs allege that BOP’s decision to house them in VDOC prisons rather than in BOP prisons violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”) 1 and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment 2 because VDOC imposes a grooming…
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