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CUTTER v. WILKINSON

Nos. 02-3270, 02-3299, 02-3301.

349 F.3d 257 (2003)

Jon B. CUTTER; J. Lee Hampton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Reginald WILKINSON; David Schwartz; Nicholas G. Menedez; L.C. Coval; K.L. Brown; George D. Alexander; Dianne Walker; Jim Erwin; Ron Carnein; Rudy Pringle; Walter Lowery, Defendants-Appellants. John Miller, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Reginald Wilkinson; David Schwartz; Terry Collins; Cheryl Hart; Charles R. Griffin; Charles Griffin, Chaplain, Defendants-Appellants. John W. Gerhardt, Plaintiff-Appellee, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Alan Lazaroff, Warden; Kenneth Byers; Don Wilson; Mary Henderson; Sherry Williamson; Kristina Hackett; Steven Weingart; Ron Clifton; Robert Englund; Charles Conrad; Stacha Doty; Jack Taylor; William Blaney; Carol Martin; June Coleman; Dave Morris; Vance York; Susan Coolie; Stephanie Walker; Rachel Hettinger; Kenneth E. McDonald, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 7, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd R. Marit (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Columbus, OH, for Appellants.

David A. Goldberger (argued and briefed), Ohio State University College of Law — Clinical Programs, Columbus, OH, Michael S. Raab (argued and briefed), Mark B. Stern (briefed), United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Benson Wolman, Wolman, Genshaft & Gellman, Columbus, OH, for Appellees.

Marc D. Stern (briefed), American Jewish Congress, Stephen Wise Congress House, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae.

Before: MOORE and GILMAN, Circuit Judges; TARNOW, District Judge.

OPINION

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs in these three consolidated cases are Ohio prisoners who contend, among other claims, that various Ohio corrections officials have violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-2000cc-5. The defendant officials filed motions to dismiss the RLUIPA claims, challenging the constitutionality of 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1, the section of the Act that applies to institutionalized...

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