Opinion ID: 1264825
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Heading: First Amendment Free Exercise

Text: Where an inmate has not put forth sufficient evidence under RLUIPA to demonstrate a substantial burden on his religious exercise, his claim fails under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment as well. See Patel, 515 F.3d at 813. Thus, for the reasons stated above, the prison officials are also entitled to summary judgment on Sisney's official-capacity First Amendment claims for extra group study time and for a tape player in his cell. As to the request for a succah, the district court appropriately considered this claim under the First Amendment standard set forth in Turner, 482 U.S. at 89-90, 107 S.Ct. 2254, and found material questions of fact in dispute. For this reason, we lack jurisdiction in this interlocutory appeal to consider this issue further.