Cejas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANDREW A. CEJAS, Case No.: 18-cv-00543-WQH (JLB)

Plaintiff,

REPORT AND

v. RECOMMENDATION REGARDING

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

ROBERT BROWN, et al.,

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Defendants. [ECF No. 74] 16 17 Plaintiff Andrew A. Cejas (“Plaintiff” or “Cejas”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (ECF Nos. 1, 13.) Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that from 2016 through 2018, officials at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) imposed a substantial burden on the exercise of his Buddhist faith in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, et seq., and denied him equal protection of the law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. (See ECF No. 1 at 22–34.) Presently before the Court is a motion for summary judgment filed by 26 …