Legal Opinion
Koger v. Bryan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 2008No. 05-1904PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Gregory Koger (“Koger”), a former inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois, filed suit against six prison officials claiming they failed to accommodate his religious-based requests for a non-meat diet. Koger claimed that this failure to accommodate his dietary request was a violation of his rights as protected by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. The defendants moved for summary judgment, arguing that Koger’s diet was not changed because his request did not meet…
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