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BARNETT v. RODGERS

Nos. 20940, 20942.

410 F.2d 995 (1969)

Leroy BARNETT, Appellant, v. Charles M. RODGERS, Superintendent, D. C. Jail, Appellee. Carl H. CLARK, Appellant, v. Charles M. RODGERS, Superintendent, D. C. Jail, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Ross O'Donoghue and George A. Fisher, Washington, D. C., (both appointed by this court) for appellants.

Mr. David P. Sutton, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before McGOWAN, TAMM and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

The basic issue before us is the degree to which officials of the District of Columbia Jail are constitutionally compelled to accommodate the dietary laws of the Muslim faith in the bill of fare afforded Muslim inmates. This question became a matter of judicial concern when appellants, Muslim prisoners in the jail,1 complained of the menu there in essentially similar pro se petitions for...

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