Legal Opinion
Shakur v. Schriro
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 23, 2008No. 05-16705PublishedCited by 854 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge O’SCANNLAIN.
OPINION. O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether prison officials violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause by denying a Muslim inmate’s request for a religious dietary accommodation. , -.
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Amin Rahman Shakur is an inmate of the Arizona Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) at Florence, Arizona. 1 ‘While incarcerated, Shakur changed his inmate religious preference designation from Catholic to Muslim. In due course, ADOC granted Shakur’s request to adopt for religious reasons a…
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