Taylor v. United States

WALTER H. RICE, Senior District Judge.

The Appellant Donald Lynn Taylor is presently confined at the Federal Correctional Institution in Manchester, Kentucky (“FCI-Manchester”). He filed a pro se complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (pursuant to the doctrine announced in Bivens v. Six Unknown Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971)), and the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680 (“the FTCA”). In his complaint, Taylor alleged that the named Defendants 1 violated his First Amendment right to exercise his religion 2 by requiring him to work on the day he…