Legal Opinion
Kay v. Bemis
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2007No. 07-4032, 07-4081PublishedCited by 1,607 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Karl Dee Kay, a Utah prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis (IFP), filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights complaint against several officials at the Bonneville Community Correctional Facility (BCCF), claiming multiple deprivations of his constitutional rights arising from his imprisonment. First, he claimed that the defendants violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000ec et seq., and his First Amendment right to freely exercise his religion by denying him tarot cards, incense, and religious books. Second, he…
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