Henderson v. Berge.

• Position: FREE SPEECH, EXPRESSION, AND ASSOCIATION - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

RELIGION

Henderson v. Berge, 362 F.Supp.2d 1030 (W.D.Wis. 2005). A state prison inmate brought a [section] 1983 action against prison officials for the alleged violation of his rights under the First Amendment Establish Clause and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that the prison's practice of making religious programming available over closed-circuit television to inmates' cells did not violate the Establishment Clause. The court found that the religious broadcasts had a secular purpose of accommodating and protecting inmates'...