Stephen R. Diehl v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

Appellant, Diehl, brings this appeal from the summary dismissal of his complaint by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. We affirm. 1

The appellant is a prisoner in the state penitentiary in Raiford, Florida. His complaint alleges that prison administrators unconstitutionally refuse to allow him to take a college-level correspondence course, entitled “Bible Doctrine and Systematic Theology”, which is offered by Gulf Coast Bible College. Diehl insists that his complaint states a cause of action for violation of his First Amendment right to “freedom of religion.”

We…