Legal Opinion
Gladson v. Iowa Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 8, 2009No. 07-3528PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Lawrence T. Gladson, Darrell Smith, and Scott Everett Howrey, inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) in Fort Madison, Iowa, and practitioners of the Wiccan religion, brought this lawsuit against Assistant Warden William Sperfs-lage of the ISP. The inmates sought in-junctive relief and monetary damages, claiming that the ISP violated their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-l et seq. They contend that the ISP…
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