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"Rights groups back Sikh man in fight over his beard"

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"Rights groups back Sikh man in fight over his beard": This article appears today in The Sacramento Bee. The article reports that "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, then on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in 1999 that a New Jersey fire department was required to accommodate Muslim firefighters who wore beards for religious reasons."

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).

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