The following excerpt is from Mootry v. Flores, Case No.: 1:09-cv-01252-LJO-BAM (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2015):
"The First Amendment, applicable to the States by reason of the Fourteenth Amendment . . . prohibits government from making a law 'prohibiting the free exercise (of religion).'" Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319, 322 (1972) (per curiam). "[P]risoners retain the protections of the First Amendment" but their "right to freely exercise [their] religion . . . is limited by institutional objectives and by the
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