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SHAKUR v. SCHRIRO

No. 05-16705.

514 F.3d 878 (2008)

Amin Rahman SHAKUR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dora B. SCHRIRO, Director, sued in her individual and official capacity as Director of Arizona Department of Corrections; Mike Linderman, sued in his individual and official capacity as Director Pastoral Activities; Bhishm Naraine, sued in his individual and official capacity as Assistant Deputy Warden; M. Errol Grant, Esq., Senior. Chaplain, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 23, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derek L. Shaffer, Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, argued the cause for the appellant and was on the briefs; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Maaren A. Choski, David J. Strandness, and Rhett O. Millsaps, II, Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, were on the briefs.

Cathy Stewart, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix, AZ, argued the cause for the appellees; Attorney General Terry Goodard, Darrin J. DeLange, and Kelley J. Morrissey, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix, AZ, were on the brief.

Before: DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O'SCANNLAIN.

OPINION

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether prison officials violated the Religious Land Use and. Institutionalized Persons Act, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause by denying a Muslim inmate's request for a religious dietary accommodation.

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Amin Rahman Shakur is an inmate of the Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADOC") at Florence, Arizona.1...

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