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SASNETT v. LITSCHER

No. 99-1502.

197 F.3d 290 (1999)

Sylvester SASNETT, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jon E. LITSCHER, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy L. Julian (argued), Julian & Associates, S.C., Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Frank D. Remington (argued), James E. Doyle, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs, who are Protestant inmates of Wisconsin prisons, brought this suit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb et seq., and under various clauses of the U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions, seeking to enjoin a state prison regulation, IMP 1-D, that forbade them to possess crosses. We held that the regulation violated RFRA, and we did not reach the other theories of violation. Sasnett v. Sullivan...

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