Legal Opinion
Milton Weir, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Crispus Nix James Helling Mary Piper, Defendants-Appellees/cross-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1997No. 95-2708, 95-2865PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Milton Weir, an inmate formerly at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), appeals the district court’s 1 judgment in favor of the defendants on five of his claims that the defendants violated his right to exercise his religion freely under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We affirm.
I
Weir is a practicing fundamentalist Christian and, as such, believes that the Bible contains the literal word of God. (Appellant’s Br. at 7.) More specifically, Weir is a member of a particular sect of fundamentalists that believes in the doctrine of “separatism,”…
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