Haley

MEMORANDUM **

Hamilton Haley appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility and several of its officers on his claims that the California Department of Corrections’ enforcement of a grooming standard for male prisoners violates the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seq., and his First Amendment Free Exercise rights. We affirm the grant of summary judgment as to Haley’s First Amendment claim, reverse as to his RLUIPA claim, and remand the case to the district court.

The district court properly analyzed Haley’s First Amendment challenge under a “reasonableness” test. Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 89 , 107 S.Ct. 2254 , 96 L.Ed.2d 64 (1987). As the district court found, the prison system’s asserted security-related interests are legitimate penological interests, and the grooming regulation in question is reasonably related to those interests. Henderson v. Terhune, 379 F.3d 709, 712-15 (9th Cir.2004). Thus, summary judgment was appropriate for this claim.

The district court also properly identified the appropriate level of scrutiny for the grooming regulation under RLUIPA.…