Harris

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT MAURICE LYDELL HARRIS, No. 24-3307 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellant, 4:21-cv-00283- HSG v. CLERIC MUHAMMAD, AKA: K. Fasish; JACKSON, SQSP Christian OPINION Chaplain; CHARLES RICHEY, Chaplain, Community Resources Manager of the CDCRs Division of Adult Institutions Religious Programs Oversight Unit, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted September 17, 2025 San Francisco, California Filed February 4, 2026 2 HARRIS V. MUHAMMAD Before: David F. Hamilton, Ryan D. Nelson, and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges. * Opinion by Judge R. Nelson SUMMARY ** First Amendment / Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act The panel vacated the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, and remanded for further proceedings, in an action brought by Maurice Lydell Harris, a California state prisoner, who sought a diet consistent with his religious beliefs. Harris, a Nichiren Buddhist, asserted a sincere religious belief in the need to eat cleanly and enrolled in the halal…