×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
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. …
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- Second Circuit Rejects Prison FLSA Claim, Modifies Standard
- Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay, by Paul Wright
- New Prisoner Resource Guide Available
- From the Editor, by Dan Pens
- Law Against Love, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- From the Inside Looking Out, by Jon Marc Taylor
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- DiIulio's Crime Solution
- Prison Time vs. Crime Rate Study
- Ninth Circuit Rules on Washington ADA Suit, by Leonard Feldman
- PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Released Prisoners
- Seventh Circuit Defines and Applies PLRA and AEDPA
- NY Jail Consent Decrees Vacated under PLRA
- Beating Damages Affirmed; PLRA Not Retroactive on Vacated Attorney Fees
- Seventh Circuit Applies PLRA to Federal Prisoners
- Center for Advocacy of Human Rights Update
- Virginia Hawks Parolees' Names
- No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review
- Habeas Corpus Study
- Prisoner Litigation in the US Courts
- Publications of Interest
- Washington Religious Name Retaliation Suit Settled
- Call Recipient's Rights Not Violated in Phone Taping
- County Liable for Trustee's Work; No Remedy for Illegal Detention
- News in Brief
- Washington Prisoner May Have Right to Attend Paternity Hearing
- New York Sex Offender Registration Enjoined
More from these topics:
- $112,500 Paid to Former New Mexico Prisoner Denied Public Records of Excessive Force by Guards, June 1, 2026. DOC/BOP misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Public Records Act, False Imprisonment.
- Settlement Reached in Mental Health Care Class-Action at San Diego County Jails, June 1, 2026. Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Class Actions, Administrative Detention/Segregation, Inadequate Health Care Facilities.
- Pepper Spraying Incident Prompts Policy Change at Washington Women’s Prison, June 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Settlements, Staff Training, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
- Arkansas Supreme Court Bows to Governor’s Board of Correction Takeover, June 1, 2026. Government Misconduct, Cost of Prison Systems, Settlements, State Legislation, Authority and Jurisdiction.
- California Pays $15,000 to State Prisoner Who Claimed He Was Targeted by Guards, June 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Snitch Jacketing, Failure to Protect (General), Summary Judgment, Settlements.
- ACLU Threatens New Lawsuit After Indiana County’s Repeated Failures to Abide by 17-Year-Old Settlement Agreement, May 1, 2026. Overcrowding, Exercise, Sanitation, Bedding, Settlements.
- Massachusetts Settles Lawsuit with Promise to Release Jail Voting Data, April 1, 2026. Voting, Advocacy, Settlements, Voting Rights, Felon Disenfranchisement Statute.
- Virginia Jail Suicide Results in $950,000 Settlement, Claims Against Wellpath still Pending, April 1, 2026. Private Contractors, Medical Records, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides.
- $300,000 Class-Action Settlement at California Jail Includes Policy Changes; Agreements with Aramark and Wellpath Reached Confidentially, March 1, 2026. Food, Sanitation, Settlements, Class Certification, Monell Liability.
- South Dakota Sobriety Program Participants Will No Longer Be Jailed for Non-Payment of Fees, March 1, 2026. Settlements, Class Certification, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Unlawful Detention, Ability to Pay.