Askari Abdullah Muhammad, 017434 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Richard Dugger, Clayton C. Strickland, David Watson, Thomas L. Barton, R.R. Music
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the United States District Court of the Middle District of Florida arises from a pro se lawsuit brought by a state prisoner under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 against the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections and other state officials (the “defendants”). The inmate alleges that his first amendment right to the free exercise of religion was violated when he was disciplined for refusing to respond to the name under which he was committed to prison rather than his subsequently adopted Islamic name. Defendants moved alternatively for a judgment on the…
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