023874P.pdf   06/22/2004  Michael Murphy  v.  MO Dept. of Corr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3874
   Western District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Prison officials' decision to reject 
   group worship request by member of Christian Separatist Church Society 
   was reasonably related to security concerns and was not an violation of 
   plaintiff's First Amendment free exercise rights; equal protection claim 
   was properly rejected as no other group was similarly situated, since no 
   group plaintiff pointed to had as one of its central tenets espousal 
   of racial separatism, a principle the jail officials reasonably believed 
   created safety concerns; programming on in-house religious channel 
   promoted freedom of religion and did not favor any particular religion; 
   defendants' summary judgment on claim they violated defendant's First 
   Amendment rights by censoring a publication reversed and remanded for 
   further proceedings, as the documented reasons for censoring the items 
   were too conclusory to support summary judgment; on remand, 
   defendants may again move for summary judgment if they have more 
   specific evidence as to why this publication implicates penological 
   concerns; regarding plaintiff's claims under the Religious Land Use and 
   Institutionalized Persons Act, the standard of review to be applied is 
   similar to the standard the court applied to cases under the Religious 
   Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; district court erred in granting 
   summary judgment on these claims, as this court could not say, on the 
   basis of the current record, that the prison had met its b