Ali v. District of Columbia.U.S. Appeals Court INTERSTATE COMPACT A voluntary arrangement between two or more states that is designed to solve their common problems and that becomes part of the laws of each state. Interstate compacts in the United States were first used by the American colonies to settle boundary disputes. Ali v. District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , 278 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2002). A District of Columbia inmate who was transferred to a Virginia prison and then back again, sued state and District officials alleging various violations of his constitutional rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (, also known as RFRA) is a 1993 United States federal law aimed at preventing laws which substantially burden a person's free exercise of their religion. (RFRA RFRA Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 RFra Rhine Franconian (linguistics) ). The district court dismissed the action and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the inmate could not establish that D.C. prison officials were liable under [section] 1983 for alleged constitutional violations by Virginia prison officials. The Virginia officials required the inmate to register under this birth name rather than his religiously-inspired legal name. The court noted that the Interstate Corrections Compact provided that confinement in the receiving state would not deprive an inmate of any legal rights which he would have had if confined in the sending state, but did not waive the receiving state's sovereign immunity The legal protection that prevents a sovereign state or person from being sued without consent. Sovereign immunity is a judicial doctrine that prevents the government or its political subdivisions, departments, and agencies from being sued without its consent. under the Eleventh Amendment. (District of Columbia Lorton Central Facility, and Sussex II, Virginia.) |
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