WALKER v. BEARD

No. 12-17460.

789 F.3d 1125 (2015)

Dennis WALKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jeffrey BEARD, CDCR Secretary and Kathleen Dickerson, Warden, CMF Prison, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot Wong (argued), San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kamala Harris , Attorney General of California, Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas S. Patterson , Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda (argued), Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Chief Judge, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Dennis Walker is a devout racist. He is an Aryan Christian Odinist incarcerated in a California state prison. The Odinist religion forbids adherents from integrating with members of races other than their own and requires the performance of rituals that may not be conducted in the presence of non-"Aryan...

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