Legal Opinion
Yellowbear v. Lampert
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 23, 2014No. 12-8048PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Andrew Yellowbear will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. Time he must serve for murdering his daughter. With that much lying behind and still before him, Mr. Yellowbear has found sustenance in his faith. No one doubts the sincerity of his religious beliefs or that they are the reason he seeks access to his prison’s sweat lodge — a house of prayer and meditation the prison has supplied for those who share his Native American religious tradition. Yet the prison refuses to open the doors of that sweat lodge to Mr. Yellowbear alone, and so we have this…
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