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063819P.pdf 02/04/2008 Kamal Patel v. Bureau of Prisons
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-3819
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Helena
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
Benton, Circuit Judge]
Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. District court did not err in granting
defendant summary judgment on plaintiff's claim that defendant's dietary
plans violated his rights under the Free Exercise Clause, the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act or the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized
Persons Act as he failed to show the plans placed a substantial burden on
his ability to exercise his Muslim faith; district court did not err in
rejecting plaintiff's Equal Protection claims as the evidence showed the
Bureau reasonably believed it had accommodated the needs of a halal diet
and that none of its actions were taken with the intent to discriminate
against religious beliefs; plaintiff lacked standing to raise an
Establishment Clause claim.