Walters v. Livingston

OPINION

Patrick A. Pirtle, Justice

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment. In the underlying lawsuit, Appellant, Mark Walters, a former inmate proceeding pro se, sued Appellee, Brad Livingston, individually and in his official capacity as executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (hereinafter.“TDCJ”), alleging that Livingston and TDCJ substantially burdened the free exercise of his Native American religion by denying him the right to personally smoke a “sacred ceremonial pipe” during religious ceremonies. Walters alleged that the acts of Livingston and…