O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz

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Argued March 24, 1987
Decided June 9, 1987

Full case name:	O'Lone, Administrator, Leesburg Prison Complex, et al. v. Estate of Shabazz, et al.

Citations:	482 U.S. 342

Holding

Court membership

Chief Justice: William Rehnquist
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia

Case opinions

O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482 U.S. 342 (1987), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the constitutionality of prison regulations. The court ruled that it was not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests."

[edit] Further reading

Rachanow, Shelly S. (1998). "The Effect of O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz on the Free Exercise Rights of Prisoners". Journal of Church & State 40: 125. ISSN 0021-969X.
Rigoli, L. M. (1990). "“Power Exercised in the Shadows”: O'Lone v. Shabazz as a Signal to the Court's Return to Interpretivism in Institutional Reform Litigation". New England Journal on Crime and Civil Confinement 16: 141.