United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit against prison officials claiming that failure to accommodate his religious-based dietary request was a violation of his rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), and the First and Fourteenth Amendments, summary judgment for defendants and other rulings are reversed and remanded for further proceedings where: 1) the record established that prison officials violated plaintiff's rights as secured under RLUIPA, and judgment for plaintiff on his claim brought under that statute was warranted; and 2) the district court abused its discretion in failing to exercise the discretion available to it under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2008
• Published 04/24/2008

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey L. Oldham (argued), Mayer Brown, houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janon E. Fabiano, Office of the Attorney General, Brian F. Barov (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.