Wayne Ford v. John McGinnis Superintendent, Patrick McGann Deputy Superintendent of Administration, Gordon Lord, Assistant Deputy Superintendent

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• holding that prisoners have a “clearly established” right “to a diet consistent with [their] religious scruples”
• holding that it is clearly established law that “a prisoner has a right to a diet consistent with his or her religious scruples,” so long as the defendant has not advanced a legitimate penological justification for withholding this diet
• recognizing a clearly established right to the Eid ul Fitr feast, which celebrates the successful completion of Ramadan
• explaining that a subjective, rather than objective, test applies to evaluating Free Exercise claims
• explaining that a subjective, rather than objective, test applies to evaluating Free Exercise claims
• noting a circuit split on the issue and assuming that the substantial burden test applies at the threshold of a Turner analysis

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