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Religious Discrimination, Unsanitary Food Suit Denied Summary Judgment
Loaded on July 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2002, page 28
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has partly granted, and mostly denied, the defendants' motions for summary judgment on a District of Columbia (D.C.) prisoner's claims that he was racially discriminated against by the defendants' arbitrary handling of his religiously based request for a vegetarian diet ...
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