BLAIR-BEY v. NIX

No. 91-3397.

963 F.2d 162 (1992)

J. BLAIR-BEY; Duane Wright-Bey; Michael Taylor-El, Appellees, v. Crispus NIX, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellant.

Paul C. Thune, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellees.

Before FAGG, Circuit Judge, LAY, Senior Circuit Judge, and HANSEN, Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 15, 1992.

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Iowa State Penitentiary inmates James Blair-Bey, Duane Wright-Bey, and Michael Taylor-El (the prisoners) brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action contending the penitentiary's policy of providing only a single Islamic religious advisor violates their First Amendment right to exercise freely their religious beliefs. Following a hearing, the district court ordered the penitentiary to...

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