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9th Circuit: Muslim woman loses hijab removal ruling

By Alliance Alert

Courthouse News Service: "A split 9th Circuit panel rejected the claims of a Muslim woman who said she suffered a 'deeply humiliating and defiling experience' when she was forced to remove her headscarf for security reasons at the Orange County Superior Courthouse . . . The district court dismissed Khatib's religious freedom claim, ruling that a courthouse holding cell is not an 'institution' as defined by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The Act protects the right of institutionalized people to practice religion." | Khatib v. County of Orange, No. 08-56423 (9th Cir. May 3, 2010)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).