Legal Opinion
In re Rhoades
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 22, 2017No. D070488PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
O’ROURKE, J.
In this appeal, officials of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the Department) challenge the trial court’s order granting a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by Gregory L. Rhoades, who is a Native American prisoner incarcerated at Calipatria State Prison (Calipatria). In granting Rhoades’s petition, the trial court concluded that the prohibition on the use of straight tobacco during prisoners’ Native American religious ceremonies violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) (42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq.) and it…
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