Watkins

MEMORANDUM **

Anthony Watkins, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his action alleging that prison officials interfered with his right to freely exercise his Muslim beliefs in violation of state law, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-l(a)(l)-(2), by faffing to provide Halal meat as a part of his regular diet. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, San Jose Christian Coll. v. City of Morgan Hill, 360 F.3d 1024 , 1029 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Watkins’ First Amendment claim under the principles of Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 89 , 107 S.Ct. 2254 , 96 L.Ed.2d 64 (1987). First, defendants established that running a simplified food service is rationally related to legitimate penological interests. See Ward v. Walsh, 1 F.3d 873, 877 (9th Cir.1993). Second, it is undisputed that meat items in Watkins’ meals were replaced with a nutritional equivalent and, in the alternative, Watkins was given the option of finding an outside religious…