Legal Opinion
Randall Jackson v. Jay Nixon
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 28, 2014No. 12-2531PublishedCited by 844 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Circuit Judge.
Randall Jackson appeals the dismissal with prejudice of his lawsuit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various state officials involved in administering and supervising the Western Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center (WRDCC) in St. Joseph, Missouri, while he was incarcerated there. As an atheist, Jackson challenged the WRDCC’s Offenders Under Treatment Program (OUTP) as *540violating his rights under the First Amendment. The district court, required under the Prison Litigation Reform Act to screen prisoner complaints prior to service, dismissed the…
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