Bruce Rich v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

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• recognizing that although the government carried a lesser burden than other actors under the voluntary cessation exception, it nonetheless failed to meet its burden
• holding the FDOC failed to carry its burden because the policy change was made only after the plaintiff filed a counseled brief, and officials continued to defend the conduct as constitutional
• noting Florida has “never promised not to resume the prior practice” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• voluntary resumption of kosher prison meal program did not moot case when defendant could “simply end” program as it had in the past
• inmate plaintiff’s claim was not moot where, after litigation commenced, prison officials began offering kosher meals only at the plaintiff’s facility
• “There is nothing to suggest that Florida will not simply end the new kosher meal program at some point in the future, just as it did in 2007.”

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