West v. Grams

OPINION and ORDER

STEPHEN L. CROCKER, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff Mansa Lutalo Iyapo (who was incarcerated under the name Rufus West but asks to be referred to by his “spiritual name”), is a Muslim inmate proceeding on claims that prison officials are: (1) violating his rights under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause and under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by prohibiting Jumu’ah, Talim and Eid al-Fitr services to be held without a volunteer leader from outside the prison; and (2) violating his rights under the First Amendment by…