Spratt v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that “to meet the least restrictive means test, prison administrators generally ought to explore at least some alternatives”
• rejecting the prison’s “all or nothing” argument and finding that the prison “must . . . establish that prison security is furthered by barring [the individual] from engaging in” the disputed conduct
• the “narrow-tailoring test” requires the district court to evaluate “ ‘the alternative measures put in issue by the parties’ ’”
• prison security not “compelling 21 interest” where prison officials offered no evidence that a blanket prohibition on inmate 22 preaching represented a threat to institutional safety
• “[T]o meet [RLUIPA’s] least restrictive means test, prison administrators generally ought to explore at least some alternatives, and their rejection should generally be accompanied by some measure of explanation.”
• “[T]o prevail on summary judgment, [a prison] ‘must do more than merely assert a security concern.’” (quoting Murphy v. Mo. Dep’t of Corr., 372 F.3d 979, 988 (8th Cir. 2004))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).