OCHS v. THALACKER

No. 95-2314.

90 F.3d 293 (1996)

Donald Duane OCHS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John A. THALACKER, Warden, Iowa Men's Reformatory; John Sissel; Russell Behrends; Ralph Schafer; Mona Burns; Larry Hebron; Jerome Manternach, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Ingram, Iowa City, IA, argued, for appellant.

William A. Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellee.

Before FAGG, BOWMAN, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In this § 1983 action, Iowa inmate Donald Duane Ochs claims that officials at the Iowa Men's Reformatory ("IMR") violated his First Amendment and Due Process rights by refusing to honor his religiously-motivated request to be housed with persons of his own race and by segregating him for making that request, and violated his Eighth Amendment rights by being deliberately indifferent to his allergic reaction to metal handcuffs. After a bench...

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