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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives West Virginia Prisoner’s RLUIPA Claim Over Religious Diet with Soy He Can’t Digest by On March 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Islamic prisoner’s federal civil rights lawsuit accusing West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed dismissal of an Equal Protection Clause claim by Ohio prisoner Lyle Heyward …
Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a group of North Carolina prisoners can be treated like adherents of a religion even …
Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida awarded a permanent injunction to state prisoner Owen D. Denson, a Muslim known as Abdul Hakeen Jahmal Naseer Shabazz, …
Florida Prisoners Not Required to File Rulemaking Petition to Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 31, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected an argument by the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) that a state prisoner’s suit should be …
New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit Survives Seeking to Validate the Nation of Gods and Earth as a Religion by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 12, 2022, the federal court for the District of New Jersey denied a motion for summary judgment by the defendant New Jersey Department of …
Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Prisoner Preliminary Injunction on Religious Issues by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On June 6, 2019 the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied a prisoner’s appeal of a circuit court’s refusal to issue a preliminary injunction regarding Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) policies as applied to …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Diet
Muslim Georgia Prisoner Wins RLUIPA Reversal in 11th Circuit Over Vegetarian Meals by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, reversed the dismissal of a Georgia prisoner’s First and Eighth Amendment damage claims that alleged he was denied a vegan diet …
McGill v. Clements, PA, Complaint, Solitary for Dreadlocks, 2020 Case 3:19-cv-01712-JFS Document 30 Filed 02/20/20 Page 1 of 16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ERIC S. MCGILL, JR., : : Plaintiff, : : v. : : TIMOTHY L. CLEMENTS, : Deputy Warden of …
Brief • January 29, 2020
Ackerman et al. v. Washington, MI, Opinion and Order, Kosher Meals in Prison, 2020 Case 4:13-cv-14137-LVP-MKM ECF No. 241 filed 01/29/20 PageID.2491 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GERLAD ACKERMAN and MARK SHAYKIN, Plaintiffs, Civil Case No. 13-14137 Honorable Linda V. Parker …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County, MN, Settlement Agreement, Religious Discrimination, 2019
Brief • September 5, 2019
Dowl v. Williams, AK, Settlement, Muslim Inmate Discrimination, 2019 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA ANAS DOWL, inmate # 345639 ERNEST JACOBSSON, inmate # 403566 Case No. 3:18-cv-00119-HRH Plaintiffs, vs. DEAN WILLIAMS, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, in his official capacity, only; et al., Defendants. …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Retaliation, RLUIPA
Eighth Circuit Reinstates Iowa Prisoner’s Retaliation Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  On February 26, 2019, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated some of the retaliation claims in a prisoner’s civil rights action that had been dismissed by the district court. Iowa state prisoner Mark Bitzan filed suit …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County, et al., MN, Ruling, Religious Discrimination, 2017 CASE 0:16-cv-02642-JRT-TNL Document 97 Filed 06/12/19 Page 1 of 45 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-2642 (JRT/TNL) AIDA SHYEF AL-KADI, Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RAMSEY COUNTY; RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; and OFFICER JESSICA …
Al-Kadi v. Ramsey County, MN, Ruling, Religious Discrimination, 2019 CASE 0:16-cv-02642-JRT-TNL Document 97 Filed 06/12/19 Page 1 of 45 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-2642 (JRT/TNL) AIDA SHYEF AL-KADI, Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RAMSEY COUNTY; RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; and OFFICER JESSICA WALKER, OFFICER …
Muslim Prisoner Accommodation in State Prisons, Muslim Advocates, 2019 FREE EXERCISE REPORT JULY 2019 FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF FREE EXERCISE FOR ALL: Muslim Prisoner Accommodation in State Prisons 1 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................... 4 I. METHODOLOGY: A Multi-Faceted Examination of Free Exercise Conditions in State Prisons ............................................................................................................................................. 7 …
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Freedom
Eighteen Years After its Passage, Prisons and Jails Continue to Violate RLUIPA by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna After decades of complaints by prisoners that corrections officials frequently denied them the right to practice their religion, Congress took action and passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), …
New York Federal District Court Allows Prisoner’s § 1983 Action to Proceed by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A New York state prisoner’s civil rights case proceeded to trial in federal district court after the judge denied the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s motion for summary …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Disciplinary Appeal Exhausted Claim of Having to Work on Religious Holiday by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On May 18, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s order dismissing a prisoner’s complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The Ninth …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
California Muslim Prisoner Defeats Summary Judgment Order in Mixed Appellate Ruling by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Darrell Eugene Harris is a Muslim prisoner confined in California’s prison system. He filed a civil rights suit raising state and federal claims against prison guard S. Escamilla. Harris alleged that Escamilla removed …
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