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Court revives suit over Muslim prayer .)
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ASSOClATEDPRESS WRITER
Francisco, assigned to the court for
the case.
The pri on guards were aware
that the inmates were praying, not
communicating, said Phillip Merkel,
a professor at Western State Univer­
sity ColJege of Law in Irvine, Calif.,
supervising attorney for the two stu­
dents who argued Smith's case.
"They kn w very well what he
was doing," Merkel said. "They just
wanted to give a hard time to a Mus­
lim inmate."
Mer el said he did not know the
details of Smith's crime or prison
sentence. He said he believedSmith
was still in pri on. '
The state's lawyers in the case
did not return a telephone call.
with him because Conner was just
starting to learn Arabic.
Smith' uit for damages and an
order prohibi ting further discipline
w di mi ed by U.S. District Judge
David Ezra but reinstated by the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
If Smith' version of the facts i
correct, he should not have been
puni hed under the English-onty rule
because it does not apply to prayer,
lh court aid in a 3-0 ruling.
"We believe that the plain mean­
ing of the rule forbid the non­
English interchange of information
between or among humans, not be­
tween humans and their Gods," the
court said.
It said there was no need to
decide whether a rule banning
foreign-language prayers would be
constitutional.
The court' ordered the case
returned to Ezra's court for trial of
�e suit The unsigned ruling was
Issued by Judges Stephen Reinhardt
and Ferdinand Fernandez and U.S.
District Judge Fern Smith of San
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -A
federal appeals court on Wednesday
revived a uit by a Haw ii pri on r
who aid be w puni hed under the
prison' Englisb-only rule for pray­
ing in Arabic.
The inmate, Terry Smith, w
given two 14-day sentences of di -
ciplinary segregation in February
1989 for violating a rule of the
HaJawa High Security Facility in
Honolulu requiring pri on r to
communicate only in Engli b.
Smi th, a practicing Muslim for
the previous seven years, aid in hi
uit that he was cited for reciting one
of the five prayers that the religion
requires each day.
A prison official ordered him to
remain silent and, when be refused,
charged him with a di ciplinary
violation. The prison said Smi th had
been communicating with another
inmate, DeMont Conner, who was
al 0 speaking in Arabic. But Smith
said Conner was also praying and
could not have been communicating
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