Sharp v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that RLUIPA does not authorize an action against state officials in their individual capacities for damages
• noting that the burden on prisons to show that an action is reasonably related to a legitimate interest is “slight”
• stating that an inmate’s rights are “necessarily limited” (citing Waterman v. Farmer, 183 F.3d 208, 213 (3d Cir. 1999))
• concluding “RLUIPA does not permit such actions [against State officials in their individual capacities]”
• “A party may raise qualified immunity as a defense at trial, especially where the facts are not clear.”
• applying harmless error analysis in a free-exercise context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).