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Sixth Circuit Reverses and Allows Ohio Prisoner’s Civil Rights Lawsuit to Proceed
Loaded on Nov. 1, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2020, page 49
Filed under:
Religious Diet,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Freedom/Worship.
Location:
Ohio.
by David M. Reutter
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to Ohio prison officials in a civil rights action alleging a prisoner’s rights were violated because he was denied a religious diet and fasting. The grant of judgment on his claims related to the ...
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