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Consultants Do Not Insulate Officials from Kosher Diet Liability
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 36
Consultants Do Not Insulate Officials from Kosher Diet Liability;
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Injunctions (PLRA),
Damages,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Diet,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Practices.
Location:
Iowa.
Prisoner Loses $30,000 for Failing to Exhaust
In an appeal by prison officials of a $30,000 punitive damage award for excluding a prisoner from participating in Jewish services and holidays, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that ...
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