O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz

O'lone v. Estate Of Shabazz
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 24, 1987 Decided June 9, 1987
Full case name	O'Lone, Administrator, Leesburg Prison Complex, et al. v. Estate of Shabazz, et al.
Docket nos.	85-1722
Citations	482 U.S. 342 (more)
Holding
The Court of Appeals erred in placing the burden on prison officials to disprove the availability of alternative methods of accommodating prisoners' religious rights. That approach fails to reflect the respect and deference the Constitution allows for the judgment of prison administrators.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by White, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482 U.S. 342 (1987), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the constitutionality of prison regulations. The court ruled that it was not a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to deprive an inmate of attending a religious service for "legitimate penological interests."

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