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183611P.pdf 04/24/2020 Napoleon-Ahmed Mbonyunkiza v. Jeff Beasely
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3611
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Grasz and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In an action by a Muslim inmate
claiming defendants served him food items containing pork or contaminated
by contact with pork, the district court did not err in concluding that
plaintiff had not satisfied his burden to show that defendants violated
his right to free exercise of his religion because four "inadvertent and
isolated" incidents failed to show a substantial burden on his ability to
practice his religion; absent evidence that an underlying prison
regulation or policy violates the Free Exercise Clause, evidence that a
corrections official negligently failed to comply with an inmate's
sincerely held religious dietary beliefs does not establish a Free
Exercise Clause claim under Section 1983.