United States Supreme Court

In a dispute involving the scope of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), judgment of the appeals court affirming summary dismissal of an action by prison inmate against state and prison officials for restricting his free exercise of religion on disciplinary grounds, is affirmed because states, in accepting federal funding, do not consent to waive their sovereign immunity to private suits for money damages under RLUIPA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2010
• Decided 04/20/2011
• Published 04/20/2011

Judges

• THOMAS

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel