Holt v. Hobbs

Holt v. Hobbs
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 7, 2014 Decided January 20, 2015
Full case name	Gregory Houston Holt, A/K/A Abdul Maalik Muhammad, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al., Respondents
Docket no.	13-6827
Citations	574 U.S. 352 (more) 135 S. Ct. 853; 190 L. Ed. 2d 747
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	509 F. App'x 561 (8th Cir. 2012) (per curiam); cert. granted, 571 U. S. 1236 (2014).
Holding
An Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Ginsburg, joined by Sotomayor
Concurrence	Sotomayor
Laws applied
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq.

Holt v. Hobbs, 574 U.S. 352 (2015), was an American legal case in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).^[1]