Denial Of Conjugal Visits Claimed To Interfere With Prisoner’s Practice Of His Religion.

A state prisoner asserts that denials by prison officials of his request for conjugal visit with his wife violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and the First Amendment by interfering with his practice of a tenet of his Islamic faith requiring him to marry, consummate his marriage, and father children. The district court denied a prison official’s motion to dismiss the case based on the statute of limitations. Without going to the merits of the underlying claim, and only dealing with the statute of limitations issue, the Ninth Circuit affirmed. Pouncil v. Tilton (Ninth Cir.; November 21, 2012) (Case No. 10-16881).