Neal v. Lewis.

• Position: Freedom of religion - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

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Neal v. Lewis, 259 F.Supp.2d 1178 (D.Kan. 2003). A state prisoner brought a [section] 1983 action, alleging that a prison's fifteen-book limit as violated his right to freedom of religion. The district court granted the prisoner's motion for a preliminary injunction. The prisoner alleged that prison officials removed from 25 to 30 books from his cell, pursuant to the prison regulation, and that those books were necessary to his practice of his Shiite Muslim religion. The prisoner's grandmother had purchased eight books for the prisoner, for $216. The books were an set of English-Arabic lexicon, which the prisoner alleged were religious texts. The prison regulation limited the total number of books to 15 and limited their...