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TAWWAB v. METZ

No. 722, Docket 76-2128.

554 F.2d 22 (1977)

Imannun Abdut TAWWAB (a/k/a Eric Caesar) et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Paul W. METZ, Individually and as Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Steinbock, New York City (Pierce Gerety, Jr., Claudia Angelos, Elizabeth A. Gaynes, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nicholas G. Garaufis, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., State of New York, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before FEINBERG, GURFEIN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is a civil rights action brought, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, by eight New York State prisoners of the Sunni Muslim faith. They complain that various regulations of Great Meadow Correctional Facility infringed rights guaranteed them under the First, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. The complaint seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as damages. The action was brought in the United States District Court for the Northern...

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