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Damages – Sovereign Immunity from suit – Waiver – Prison officials refusing to allow inmate to participate in religious service or use chapel while on cell restriction – Inmate claiming state thereby burdening religious exercise of institutionalized person and failing to use least restrictive means of furthering compelling governmental interest in program receiving federal financial assistance – Seeking to recover damages for violation of entitlement to religious exercise – Whether acceptance of federal assistance by state amounted to unequivocal waiver of state immunity from suit – Religious Land Use and Institutionalized persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) – 42 USC §§ 2000bb-1-4, 42 USC §§ 2000cc-1,2(a); 42 USC §§ 2000cc-5(4)(A); USCA Const Art 1, § 8, cl 1; USCA Const Amend 1; USCA Const Amend 11.

The U.S. ambassador sent an invitation to George C. Marshall European, associate dean at Center for Security Studies, Italy to attend the annual Memorial Day observance at the U.S. War Cemetery at Nettuno, not far from the storied landing beaches of Anzio. Each branch of the U.S. armed forces had a formation in ranks before the rostrum, flanked on either side by the Sixth Fleet Band and an Italian Carabinieri Band. After the ceremony, the crowd before the dais broke into small groups of mourners who paid their private respects to fallen friends.