Legal Opinion
Al-Amin Hunafa v. James P. Murphy, John Bell, Raymond Poff, and Evelyn Fox
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 10, 1990No. 88-3180PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Al-Amin Hunafa, an inmate in a Wisconsin state prison, brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officers of the prison who, he claims, infringed his First Amendment right (made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment) to the free exercise of his religion, which is Islam. The district court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissed the suit.
The prison serves pork two or three days a week to inmates who are in disciplinary segregation, like Hunafa. Eating pork is contrary to the tenets of Islam (as of orthodox Judaism). The…
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