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Use of Force, Religious Diet Claims Set for Trial
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 3
A New York prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit on First and Eighth Amendment violations survived three out of four summary judgment challenges by prison officials and moved closer to trial.
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Qualified Immunity,
Censorship,
Religious Diet.
Location:
New York.
On September 5, 1996, Abdul Majid, a prisoner at Sullivan Correctional Facility, was passing through a security checkpoint when …
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