Orafan v. Rashid

SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiffs appeal the District Court’s grant of summary judgment, entered on January 17, 2006, 411 F.Supp.2d 153, dismissing plaintiffs’ claims that (1) the failure of the New York State Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to provide them with a Friday congregate prayer service led by a Shiite, rather than Sunni, Muslim violates them rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc-l(a); and (2) the DOC treats them less favorably than non-Shiite inmates, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

“We…