Muhammad v. McNeil

Akeem Muhammad is a Sunni Muslim serving a life sentence at Florida State Prison. On May 10, 2007, he filed a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in Leon County Circuit Court claiming, among other things, that the prison’s refusal to accommodate his needs during Ramadan and to house him in a single cell ■with a flush toilet violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), § 42 U.S.C. 2000cc; the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment, the cruel-and-unusual-punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment, and the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth…