WILLIAMS v. HANSEN

No. 20-1146.

5 F.4th 1129 (2021)

Charles Lamont WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jennifer HANSEN; David Lisac; Rebecca Volz; Andrew King, Defendants-Appellants, and John Doe; Deborah Borrego; Dayna Johnson, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed July 21, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua G. Urquhart , Assistant Attorney General ( Philip J. Weiser , Colorado Attorney General, and Cole J. Woodward , Assistant Attorney General, with him on the briefs), Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellants.

David Joseph Feder , Jones Day, Los Angeles, California ( Cynthia A. Barmore and Benjamin C. Mizer , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., and Samuel Weiss , Rights Behind Bars, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before BACHARACH, EBEL, and MCHUGH, Circuit Judges.


This appeal involves the constitutional right of prisoners to freely exercise their religious beliefs. The issue is whether prison officials violated a clearly established right by banning

• any Native American religious services for at least nine days and • the use of tobacco for Native...

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