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SHARP v. SIGLER

Civ. Nos. 1279L-1282L.

277 F.Supp. 963 (1967)

Alvin Allen SHARP, Inmate, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Petitioner, v. Warden, Maurice H. SIGLER, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Respondent. Charles E. McCLELLAND, Inmate, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Petitioner, v. Warden, Maurice SIGLER, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Respondent. William Edward YATES, Inmate, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Petitioner, v. Warden, Maurice SIGLER, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Respondent. Thomas Arthur DAVIS, Inmate, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Petitioner, v. Warden, Maurice H. SIGLER, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Nebraska.

December 11, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Sutter, Lincoln, Neb., for petitioner Sharp.

Donald F. Burt, Lincoln, Neb., for petitioner McClelland.

Gary G. Thompson, Lincoln, Neb., for petitioner Yates.

Robert L. Anderson, Lincoln, Neb., for petitioner Davis.

Harold Mosher, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM

VAN PELT, District Judge.

These separate cases are now before the court for decision following separate trials. There is one question in common to each of the cases. It is whether or not petitioners are being subjected to unlawful discrimination under the freedom of worship clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution by reason of the admitted fact that they are not allowed to attend religious...

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