Re: A Constitutional right to make pilgrimage

2010-12-13 Thread Nathan Oman
I tried to find a copy of the complaint online. Has anyone seen it? To second Mr. Stern's suggestion, when I was in practice we successfully sued the Wisconsin prison system for failing to accomodate Halal diets for prisoners. The claim looked dead under Smith, but the prison system was already

Re: A Constitutional right to make pilgrimage

2010-12-13 Thread sternm
First the suit is probably brought under tile vii and not the constitution. The smith standard is inapplicable under that statute.. Second, the department will likely argue that the leave policy was administered unevenly-say Jews are given leave for passover. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackB