Sossamon v. Lone Star State of Texas

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• holding that “RLUIPA does not create a cause of action against defendants in their individual capacities” and any award of damages against defendants in their official capacities “is barred by Texas’s sovereign immunity”
• concluding that RLUIPA \was passed pursuant to the Spending Clause\
• noting that “some physical or logical []possibility that the challenged policy will be reenacted,” absent concrete evidence of intent to do so, will not overcome mootness
• noting that “the chapel can be and is safely used for other kinds of prisoner gatherings, such as weekend-long marriage training sessions (with outside visitors), sex education, and parties for GED graduates.”
• reversing the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Texas on one of petitioner’s RLUIPA claims for declaratory and injunctive relief
• reversing the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Texas on one of petitioner’s RLUIPA claims for declaratory and injunctive relief

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