Holt v. Hobbs
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Holt v. Hobbs, 574 U.S. 352 (2015), was an American legal case in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).[1]
Quick Facts Holt v. Hobbs, Argued October 7, 2014 Decided January 20, 2015 ...
Holt v. Hobbs | |
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Argued October 7, 2014 Decided January 20, 2015 | |
Full case name | Gregory Houston Holt, A/K/A Abdul Maalik Muhammad, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al., Respondents |
Docket no. | 13-6827 |
Citations | 574 U.S. 352 (more) 135 S. Ct. 853; 190 L. Ed. 2d 747 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Case history | |
Prior | 509 F. App'x 561 (8th Cir. 2012) (per curiam); cert. granted, 571 U. S. 1236 (2014). |
Holding | |
An Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Alito, joined by unanimous |
Concurrence | Ginsburg, joined by Sotomayor |
Concurrence | Sotomayor |
Laws applied | |
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq. |
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