Richard Watkinson v. Alaska Dep't of Corr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAY 2 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD R. WATKINSON, No. 21-35084

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:17-cv-00236-JMK

v.

MEMORANDUM*

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS; EARL HAUSER; JAMES

DUNCAN; SCOTT DIAL,

Defendants-Appellees,

and

KEITH ROGERS; JOHN CONANT,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska Joshua M. Kindred, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 15, 2022 San Francisco, California

Before: McKEOWN and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and VRATIL, ** District Judge.

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Kathryn H. Vratil, United States District Judge for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation. Plaintiff Richard Watkinson—a prisoner in the Alaska Department

of Corrections (“ADOC”) and a practitioner of Asatru—appeals from the district

court’s judgment for Defendants ADOC, Earl Hauser, James Duncan, and…