In re Name Change of SIMPKINS

OPINION

AMUNDSON, Judge

On appeal from dismissal of his name-change proceeding for failure to appear at the hearing, Winston Myles Simpkins, a federal prison inmate, claims that the district court’s denial of his requests to (1) appear by telephone conference; or (2) issue a writ of habeas corpus ad testifican-dum directing the sheriff to transport him to the district courthouse for the hearing violated his First Amendment right to religious freedom. He also asserts that the district court’s denial of his motion to depose prison staff violated his Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process. We…