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REMMERS v. BREWER

Nos. 75-1284 and 75-1638.

529 F.2d 656 (1976)

Michael D. REMMERS, Ordained Revelation Minister in the Church of the New Song and Coadjutor of Local Purlieu T.R.U.T.H., et al., Appellants, v. Lou V. BREWER, Warden at Iowa State Penitentiary, et al., Appellees. Michael D. REMMERS, Ordained Revelation Minister in the Church of the New Song, and Coadjutor of Local Purlieu T.R.U.T.H., et al., Appellees, v. Lou V. BREWER, Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellees' brief in No. 75-1284 and appellants' brief in No. 75-1638 was filed by Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., of Iowa, Lorna Lawhead Williams, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Michael P. Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa.

Appellees' brief in No. 75-1638 and appellants' brief in No. 75-1284 was filed by Gary L. Anderson, Robert N. Clinton, Charles Pulaski, Jr., and John Thompson, University of Iowa, College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa.

Before HEANEY, ROSS and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

On April 16, 1974, we held in Remmers v. Brewer, 494 F.2d 1277 (8th Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1012, 95 S.Ct. 332, 42 L.Ed.2d 286 (1974), that "The Church of the New Song is a religion within the ambit of the First Amendment" and that its members must be "allowed a fair and meaningful opportunity to freely exercise their religion in the same degree as other inmates, Protestant and...

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