News of Employment Division v. Smith not reaching some district courts?

Volokh, Eugene VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu
Fri Jul 7 15:36:07 PDT 2006


	Alley v. Levy, 2006 WL 1804605 (M.D. Tenn.) grants a Tennessee
state death row inmate's request for a preliminary injunction blocking
the autopsy of his body, on Free Exercise Clause grounds.  The court
says nothing about Smith, and simply asserts that strict scrutiny
applies.  It cites Workman v. Levy, 136 F. Supp. 2d 899, 900 (M.D. Tenn.
2001), which had done the same; that in turns cites United States v.
Hammer, 121 F. Supp. 2d 794, 802 (M.D. Pa. 2000), which had done the
same (though at least in Hammer the same result might have been reached
under RFRA, since that involves a federal inmate). 

	Eugene


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