Legal Opinion
Everett R. Lyon v. Del Vande Krol Paul Hedgepeth James Helling Rabbi Jacobson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 4, 2002No. 00-3283PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Everett Lyon, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), brought this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against ISP officials, claiming that the prison’s exclusion of him from participating in Jewish services and holidays violated his constitutional rights. Although Mr. Lyon had previously filed four civil rights complaints that had been dismissed as frivolous, the district court refused to dismiss his complaint as the so-called “three-strikes provision” of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) required because it concluded that the statute was…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Lyon v. Vande KrolDistrict Court, S.D. Iowa · 1996
- Everett R. Lyon v. Del Vande Krol Paul Hedgepeth James Helling Rabbi JacobsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
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