Guy McEachin v. Michael McGuinnis Superintendent, W.E. Wilcox, Acting Dep. Supt. Of Security, Southport, J. Irizarry, Food Service Administrator

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• holding that plaintiff stated plausible free exercise claim when the factual allegations indicated that defendant’s actions may have “significantly impeded [plaintiff’s] religious observance”
• explaining that to “deny prison inmates the provision of food that satisfies the dictates of their faith . . . unconstitutionally burden[s] their free exercise rights”
• holding First Amendment Free Exercise Clause protects an inmate’s right to a diet or food that is consistent with dictates of inmate’s faith or religious beliefs”
• holding Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment protects an inmate’s right to a diet or food that is consistent with dictates of inmate’s faith or religious beliefs
• noting that “courts have generally found that to deny prison inmates the provision of food that satisfies the dictates of their faith does unconstitutionally burden their free exercise rights.”
• noting that the Court “is obliged to construe [pro se] pleadings liberally’

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