Legal Opinion
Keith Nance v. Allen Miser
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 29, 2017No. 16-15321UnpublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
Plaintiff-appellant Keith Nance appeals the district court’s decision to grant summary judgment for defendants-appellees Allen Miser, Mike Linderman and Charles Ryan (collectively, Defendants) in this prisoner civil rights case. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we reverse.
We review de novo a district court’s decision to grant summary judgment. Brunozzi v. Cable Commc’ns, Inc., 851 F.3d 990, 995 (9th Cir. 2017).
Section 3 of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) provides,
No government shall impose a substantial burden on the…
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