United States Third Circuit

Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, state corrections department's restriction on inmates that they possess in their cells only ten books at a time substantially burdens plaintiff's religious exercise.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2007
• Decided 08/02/2007
• Published 08/02/2007

Judges

• Before:  SMITH, NYGAARD, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy Winkelman, Edward D. Manchester (argued), Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, Howard G. Hopkirk, Senior Deputy Attorney General (argued), John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Appellate Litigation Section, Office of Attorney General, Appellate Litigation Section, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellee.