United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment to defendants is affirmed where prison policy prohibiting in-cell use and possession of prayer oils is rationally related to a legitimate penological interest and defendant is entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/13/2003
• Published 11/13/2003

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BALDOCK, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tyrone R. Hammons filed briefs, pro se., Philip J. Weiser, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory Thomas Metcalfe, Assistant Attorney General, (Machelle Y. Thompson, Assistant Attorney General, with him on the briefs), Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.