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U.S. v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 15-14117.

828 F.3d 1341 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Florida, Department of Corrections, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 14, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Chen-Hsin Wang , Jeffrey S. Blumberg , Deena S. Fox , Michael J. Songer , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Mark L. Gross , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Timothy D. Mygatt , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Veronica Harrell-James , Emily M. Smachetti , U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami, FL, Ayesha N. Khan , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Bethesda, MD, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Pam Bondi , Attorney General's Office, Miami, FL, Jamie Melissa Braun , David W. Grimes , Dean Clinton Kowalchyk , Susan Adams Maher , Lisa Kuhlman Tietig , Attorney General's Office, Jason Vail , Jolly & Peterson, PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Shay Dvoretzky , Jones Day , Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and STORY, District Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq., prevents the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from denying kosher meals to inmates whose sincere religious beliefs require them to keep kosher. After the United...

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