Shakur

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AMIN RAHMAN SHAKUR, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DORA B. SCHRIRO, Director, sued in her individual and official capacity as Director of Arizona No. 05-16705 Department of Corrections; MIKE LINDERMAN, sued in his individual  D.C. No.

CV-01-02470-PGR

and official capacity as Director

OPINION

Pastoral Activities; BHISHM NARAINE, sued in his individual and official capacity as Assistant Deputy Warden; M. ERROL GRANT, Esq., Senior Chaplain, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Paul G. Rosenblatt, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 14, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed January 23, 2008

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain COUNSEL

Derek L. Shaffer, Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, argued the cause for the appel- lant and was on the briefs; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Maaren A. Choski, David J. Strandness, and Rhett O. Millsaps, II, Con-…