AZIZ v. LeFEVRE

No. 937, Docket 80-2349.

642 F.2d 1109 (1981)

Ahmad Abdul AZIZ, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. Eugene S. LeFEVRE, Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, and Benjamin Ward, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Kagan, Plattsburgh, N. Y. (Arthur J. Giacalone, David C. Leven, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Plattsburgh, N. Y., of counsel), for appellants.

Alan M. Adler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Shirley Adelson Siegel, Sol. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel), for appellees.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and SAND, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

In this appeal Sunni Muslim inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, challenge the grant of summary judgment, 500 F.Supp. 725 (N.D.N.Y.1980), by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, James T. Foley, Judge, dismissing their complaint in which they allege that prison regulations were interfering with their First Amendment right of free exercise of religion. We...

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