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FORD v. McGINNIS

Docket No. 02-0205.

352 F.3d 582 (2003)

Wayne FORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John McGINNIS, Superintendent, Patrick McGann, Deputy Superintendent of Administration, Gordon Lord, Assistant Deputy Superintendent, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 15, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart W. Gold, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (Rachel G. Skaistis, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Marion Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SOTOMAYOR, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and POLLACK, District Judge.

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Wayne Ford ("Ford") is a practicing Muslim incarcerated within the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS"). This lawsuit arises out of the refusal of defendants John McGinnis, Patrick McGann, and Gordon Lord (collectively "defendants" or "prison officials"), to provide Ford one meal in January of 2000. The meal Ford claims he was denied, however, was not just any meal but the Eid ul Fitr feast, held once a year...

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