Mutawakkil v. Huibregtse

Dist. Ct. did not err in granting defendants-prison officials’ motion for summary judgment in plaintiff-prisoner’s action alleging that defendants’ refusal to refer to plaintiff by his “spiritual” name, i.e., Prince Atum-Ra Uhum Mutawakkil violated Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Defendant’s policy is to only permit inmate use of name that was on his judgment of conviction, and plaintiff failed to show that defendants’ use of his name on his judgment of conviction created substantial burden on plaintiff’s exercise of his religion. Moreover, Ct. noted that plaintiff had failed to seek formal name change in Wisc. civil court.