Brown

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES AUSTIN, Case No.: 18cv0600-WQH (JLB)

ORDER:

Plaintiff, 13 v. (1) DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; AND

R. BROWN, F. HADJADJ,

J. DAVIES and P. COVELLO,

(2) GRANTING IN PART AND 16 Defendants. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY

JUDGMENT

18 Plaintiff James Austin is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (ECF No. 1.) He claims that while housed at the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”), the free exercise of his religion was substantially burdened in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (“RLUIPA”) by frequent cancellation of weekly Buddhist chapel services for lack of a volunteer supervisor due to Defendants’ failure to provide a permanent supervisor, such as a Buddhist chaplain. (Id. at 9-34.)

27 All other claims in the…