James J. Kaufman v. Jeffrey Pugh

WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This is our second encounter with Wisconsin inmate James Kaufman’s effort to compel the prison system to treat atheism, which he follows, on the same footing as other religious beliefs. In 2005, this panel addressed Kaufman’s claim that the Wisconsin prison in which he was then housed had violated the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment by refusing his request to create a religious study group dedicated to atheism, while allowing religious study groups dedicated to other religions. We held that Kaufman’s request to form such a group must be…