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9th Circuit: Eleventh Amendment Bars Prisoner’s Claim for Damages under RLUIPA

The Ninth Circuit has held that a prisoner bringing suit under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1, may not obtain damages from state officials in their official capacities.

California prisoner Patrick Ronald Holley, Sr., brought suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § ...

 

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