United States Eighth Circuit

Government defendants had an objectively reasonable belief that they were not denying a prisoner's constitutional rights as a Muslim by refusing his request for a vegetarian diet, and they were entitled to qualified immunity on his 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2003
• Published 05/30/2003

Judges

• HEANEY, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, HEANEY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Darrell Theodore Kind, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• James R. Andreen, Minneapolis, MN, for appellees.