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No Immunity in Denying Kosher Diet
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2000, page 11
The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that fact issues requiring a trial were present in a Jewish prisoner's lawsuit over the denial of a kosher diet. The court also held prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages in this case.Nathaniel Jackson, a ...
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