Opinion

Brown v. Follin

  • 385 U.S. 988
  • 87 S. Ct. 599
  • 17 L. Ed. 2d 449
  • 1966 U.S. LEXIS 30
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Dec 12, 1966
Status
Published
Cited by
41 cases
Authority
More cited than 98.8%

prisoners confined to maximum security ward where institutional privileges severely restricted for seeking Muslim religious services being “arbitrarily punished”

How later courts described this case

  • prisoners confined to maximum security ward where institutional privileges severely restricted for seeking Muslim religious services being “arbitrarily punished”
  • “undisputed facts make it very clear that there was no issue in this trial with respect to the voluntariness of the confession”
  • arbitrary and serious punishment of activities closely related to first amendment freedoms

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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