No. 21-7282

Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-03-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2022-04-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED | : 1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim it has some "compelling interest" in the denial of the inmate's right to practice his religion-in a least restrictive manner in accordance with the R-L.U.I.P.A.? 2) Does a state prison have a "compelling interest" to blanket ban all pornographic materials when the same is sold on the open market legally in the | state, would this not be de facto censorship? | 3) What "compelling interest" could a state prison have in the denial of an’; inmate's religious practice? 4) If holy books and religious literature is allowed for Muslims and Jews and Christains, then pornographic materials should be allowed for Erosians, wouldn't the Court think? 5) Under the R.L.U.I.P.A.,the state prison must abide all federal laws pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to which it is the states that are the parties to it, and it is the law that says equal protection of the law extends to people, not to interests, wherefore, would it be unlawful. for the state prison to deny an inmate his right to practice his religion in a least restrictive means? |

Docket Entries

2022-05-02
Petition DENIED.
2022-04-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/29/2022.
2022-01-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 4, 2022)

Attorneys

Joshua D. Bland
Joshua Davis Bland — Petitioner
Joshua Davis Bland — Petitioner