CUTTER v. WILKINSON

No. 02-3270, 02-3299, 02-3301.

423 F.3d 579 (2005)

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: September 13, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Todd R. Marti, Office of the Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. David A. Goldberger, Ohio State University College of Law—Clinical Programs, Columbus, Ohio, Michael S. Raab, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Todd R. Marti, Office of the Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. David A. Goldberger, Ohio State University College of Law—Clinical Programs, Columbus, Ohio, Michael S. Raab, Mark B. Stern, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Benson A. Wolman, Wolman & Associates, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees. Marc D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, Stephen Wise Congress House, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae.

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


OPINION

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated cases come to us on remand from the United States Supreme Court. In all three, Ohio prisoners sued state corrections officials for alleged violations of the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause and of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1 (2000). The prison officials mounted a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the section of RLUIPA that applies...

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