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WILSON v. PRASSE

Civ. A. No. 67-644.

325 F.Supp. 9 (1971)

Perley WILSON, v. Arthur T. PRASSE, Commissioner of Correction, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, James F. Maroney, Superintendent, Herbert E. Welch, Deputy Supt., and Allyn Sielaff, now Commissioner.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Division.

April 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Stanton Wettick, Jr., Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

George R. Specter, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL

KNOX, District Judge.

This is a prisoner's civil rights action brought by an inmate of the Pennsylvania Western Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Plaintiff has sued the State Commissioner of Corrections and the Warden and Deputy Warden of the Institution claiming that they have interfered with his religious freedom to worship as a Black Muslim and that they have discriminated...

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