FAWAAD v. JONES

No. 95-6094 Non-Argument Calendar.

81 F.3d 1084 (1996)

Mateen FAWAAD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ronald E. JONES, Prison Commissioner, Larry Burton, Warden, Ron Hightower, Regional Director, Paul Whaley, Director of Classification, Kelly, Mail Personnel at SCCF, Davis, Mail Clerk at St. Clair Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mateen Fawaad, Springville, AL, for appellant.

Andrew W. Redd, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Legal Div., Montgomery, AL, for appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, and HATCHETT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this pro se, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 appeal, state prisoner Mateen Fawaad argues that the Alabama Department of Corrections policy, requiring inmates to use both their religious names and their commitment names on all incoming and outgoing mail, violates his constitutional right to practice his religion freely under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 ("RFRA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb-2000bb-4 (1994). Following a nonjury trial,...

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