Prisoner May Proceed On Communal Worship and Religious Name Allegations

In Shidler v. Moore, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 892 (ND Ind., Jan. 3, 2006), an Indiana federal district court granted a Muslim prisoner leave to proceed against a prison chaplain and his administrative assistant for damages for denying him access to communal worship. The court also permitted the prisoner to proceed with his claim for damages and an injunction for denying him the ability to send or receive mail using his religious name. Several other claims by the prisoner, including one that the prison had incorrectly listed him as Christian rather than Muslim, were rejected.