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Washington Religious Name Retaliation Suit Settled
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 13
In the July, 1996 and August, 1994, issues of PLN we reported Malik v. Brown, 71 F.3d 724 (9th Cir. 1995) and 16 F.3d 330 (9th Cir. 1994), in which Washington state prisoner, and PLN supporter, Dawud Malik was punished by prison officials for using his legally changed religious name. …
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