Legal Opinion
Keith Brown-El v. Charles Harris, Major Gary Tune, Chaplain
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1994No. 93-1541PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Keith Brown-El, an inmate at the Potosí Correctional Center (PCC), brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming two PCC officials violated his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion by removing him from the list of fasting Muslim inmates given a special meal schedule. The district court granted summary judgment to the PCC officials. Brown-El appeals and we affirm.
During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Muslims are not allowed to eat during daylight hours. To accommodate inmates with sincerely held Muslim beliefs, PCC officials adopted special procedures…
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