Shakur v. Selsky.

• Position: RELIGION - Brief Article

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RLUIPA -- Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act

Shakur v. Selsky, 391 F.3d 106 (2nd Cir. 2004). A state prisoner brought claims under [section] 1983 against corrections officers and officials alleging various constitutional violations and violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The district court dismissed the prisoner's complaint with prejudice, and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded. The court held that the prisoner stated a legally cognizable First Amendment claim by alleging that a prison regulation that banned all literature from outside organizations unless those...