United States Fourth Circuit

Correctional system may not prohibit petitioner from acquiring and possessing sacred Native American objects purely on the basis of petitioner's race.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2000
• Decided 02/07/2001
• Published 02/07/2001

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and KING, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Pamela Anne Sergeant, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellants.  Rebecca Kim Glenberg, American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia Foundation, Inc., Richmond, VA, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellants.  Richard W. Ferris, Lydia L. King, Third-year Law Student, American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia Foundation, Inc., Richmond, VA, for Appellee.