ISH YERUSHALAYIM v. U.S.

Docket No. 03-0076.

374 F.3d 89 (2004)

Ben-Siyon ISH YERUSHALAYIM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 25, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yeugenia Kamenshchik (2d Cir. R. 46(e)) and Ingrid E. Melnichuk (2d Cir. R. 46(e)), Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice (Jon Romberg, of counsel), Newark, NJ, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Timothy D. Lynch, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, and Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: SACK, SOTOMAYOR, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

In this appeal, the plaintiff Ben-Siyon Ish Yerushalayim alleges deprivation of kosher meals and religious texts while, in November 2000, he was incarcerated for forty-nine hours at a federal correctional facility in violation of his rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq. ("RLUIPA"). He appeals from the January 14, 2003, judgment of...

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