Legal Opinion
Michael Dunham Murphy v. Missouri Department of Corrections Winfrey Dickerson Dora B. Schriro Elijah Nagbe Steve Long Michael Kemna
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 2, 2004No. 02-3874PublishedCited by 294 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Michael Murphy appeals from the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment in favor of appellees on his claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I
Murphy is incarcerated at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri. He is a practicing member of the Christian Separatist Church Society (CSC), a religious group that holds as a central tenet the belief that its members must all be Caucasian because they are uniquely blessed by God…
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