Legal Opinion
Sylvester Sasnett v. Jon E. Litscher, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 23, 1999No. 99-1502PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs, who are Protestant inmates of Wisconsin prisons, brought this suit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb et seq., and under various clauses of the U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions, seeking to enjoin a state prison regulation, IMP 1-D, that forbade them to possess crosses. We held that the regulation violated RFRA, and we did not reach the other theories of violation. Sasnett v. Sullivan, 91 F.3d 1018, 1022 (7th Cir.1996). Shortly afterward, however, the Supreme Court held RFRA unconstitutional, City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Ore. v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by31 opinions
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