Cruz v. Beto

Cruz v. Beto
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 20, 1972
Full case name	Cruz v. Beto, Corrections Director
Holding
Cruz cannot be denied a reasonable opportunity of pursuing his faith comparable to the opportunity afforded fellow prisoners who adhere to conventional religious precepts. Texas has violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Per curiam.

Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim on the basis of the allegations that the state of Texas had discriminated against a Buddhist prisoner by "denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts."

Further reading

• Cripe, C. A. (1977). "Religious Freedom in T.". Criminal Justice Policy Review 17 (2): 188–201. doi:10.1177/0887403405280943. 

External links

• Text of Cruz v. Beto, 504 U.S. 555 (1972) is available from: Justia · Findlaw