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Do New York Shiite Prisoners Have a Right to Separate Services?
Loaded on June 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 31
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Summary Judgment,
Complaints,
RLUIPA,
Religious Freedom,
Denial of Religious Services.
Location:
New York.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals
has held that a district court improperly dismissed a suit by Shiite Muslim New York state prisoners seeking separate religious services from the Sunni Muslims.
Thomas Pugh, Edward Hamil and Clay Chatin, New York state prisoners, filed suit against under ...
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