1. By: Kyle Jamal Woods

2.  District of Maryland  Eastern District of North Carolina  Middle District of North Carolina  Western District of North Carolina  District of South Carolina  Eastern District of Virginia  Western District of Virginia  Northern District of West Virginia  Southern District of West Virginia

3. 4 th Circuit

4. JudgesCommission Date William B. Traxler Jr.10/1/1998 J. Harvie Welkinson III08/13/1984 Paul V. Niemeyer08/07/1990 Diana Gribbon Motz06/16/1994 Robert B. King10/09/1998 Roger L. Gregory07/25/2001 Dennis W. Shedd11/26/2002 Allyson K. Ducan08/15/2003 G. Steven Agee07/01/2008 Barbara Milano Keenan03/09/2010 James A. Wynn Jr.08/10/2010 Albert Diaz12/22/2010 Henry F. Floyd10/05/2011 Stephanie D. Thacker04/17/2012 Clyde H. Hamilton07/22/1991 Andre M. Davis11/10/2009 Chief Judge Senior Judge

5.  Herbert Dettmer (a Virginia prisoner) desired accses to ritual objects, including several varieties of knives to perform his rituals. If you didn’t know. If you didn’t know they don’t allow knives in prison. The opinion of the court came out to be that Dettmer was not being discriminated and that his First Amendment right was not being violated in any way.

6. ◦ "United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit." United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.