Legal Opinion

Patrick Fluker v. Ronald King

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 9, 2017No. 15-60218UnpublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM: *

Pro se Muslim inmate Patrick Fluker filed a lawsuit alleging that, while he was in restrictive custody (“c-custody”) at South Mississippi Corrections Institution (“SMCI”), Superintendent Ronald King and Deputy Warden Hubert Davis (“Ap-pellees”) violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized . Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting him and other Muslim c-custody inmates from attending Jumu’ah services 1 outside of the c-custody unit while allowing non-Muslim c-custody inmates…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. O'Lone v. Estate of ShabazzSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Turner v. Baylor Richardson Medical CenterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2007
  4. Block v. RutherfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Sossamon v. Lone Star State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009

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