Legal Opinion
Sutton v. Rasheed
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 19, 2003No. 97-7096PublishedCited by 335 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court granting defendants summary judgment on claims that defendants infringed upon, inter alia, plaintiffs’ rights protected by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs, three members of the Nation of Islam,1 contend that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ former policy of limiting inmates’ access to religious material while they were confined in a special unit for high-risk inmates was unconstitutional — both as applied and facially — because defendants used “unlawful prison rules” to “illegally…
3Cases cited43 opinions
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