Mayweathers v. Newland

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

California State prison officials (“California”) bring a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq. (2000) (“RLUI-PA”), on various grounds. Their appeal arises from a series of preliminary injunctions, issued pursuant to RLUIPA, which allow Muslim prisoners to attend Friday afternoon religious services.

The district court upheld the statute as a constitutional exercise of Congress’s Spending Clause authority. We affirm.1

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

RLUIP…