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"New hearing ordered in holding-cell hijab suit"

"New hearing ordered in holding-cell hijab suit": Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update that begins, "A federal appeals court granted a new hearing Monday to a Muslim woman who was ordered by sheriff's deputies to remove her hijab in a courthouse holding cell. A panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled 2-1 in May that Orange County deputies hadn't violated Souhair Khatib's rights by making her take off the religiously mandated headscarf for security reasons when she was placed in the holding cell. But the court said Monday that a majority of its 27 judges had voted to set that ruling aside and refer the case to an 11-judge panel for a rehearing in December."

You can access today's order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link. My earlier coverage of a humorous aspect of the three-judge panel's now-vacated ruling can be accessed here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).