O'LONE v. ESTATE OF SHABAZZ

No. 85-1722.

482 U.S. 342 (1987)

O'LONE, ADMINISTRATOR, LEESBURG PRISON COMPLEX, ET AL. v. ESTATE OF SHABAZZ ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie M. Hodian, Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey, argued the cause for petitioners. With her on the briefs were W. Cary Edwards, Attorney General, and James J. Ciancia, Assistant Attorney General.

Roger Clegg argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Weld, and Deputy Solicitor General Bryson.

James Katz argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Eric Neisser, Alvin J. Bronstein, David B. Goldstein, Edward I. Koren, and Elizabeth Alexander; for the American Jewish Congress et al. by Marc D. Stern and Amy Adelson; for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights et al. by Steven Frederick McDowell; for the Christian Legal Society et al. by Michael J. Woodruff and Samuel E. Ericsson; for the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of the city of New York et al. by Philip L. Weinstein, David A. Lewis, and Stephen M. Latimer; for Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin et al. by Ellen J. Winner, James G. Abourezk, and Albert P. Mokhiber; and for Len Marek et al. by Steven C. Moore and Walter R. Echo-Hawk.


CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case requires us to consider once again the standard of review for prison regulations claimed to inhibit the exercise of constitutional rights. Respondents, members of the Islamic faith, were prisoners in New Jersey's Leesburg State Prison.1 They challenged policies adopted by prison officials...

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