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MTR OF SHAHID v. COUGHLIN

83 A.D.2d 8 (1981)

In the Matter of Zahid Abush Shahid, Also Known as Thomas Flowers, et al., Respondents, v. Thomas Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

October 22, 1981

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederick R. Walsh, Shirley Adelson Siegel and William J. Kogan of counsel), for appellants.

Robert Selcov (Barbara Schneider Corner and Robert A. Kagan of counsel), for respondents.

MAIN, MIKOLL, YESAWICH, JR., and HERLIHY, JJ., concur.

MAHONEY, P. J.

Petitioners are eight inmates who, at the time of the incidents and proceedings relevant to this appeal, were confined at the Clinton Correctional Facility. On December 10, 1979, officials at the prison issued a posted rule which prohibited inmates from wearing any type of clothing or toweling while taking a shower in the bathhouse. In the month which followed the posting of this rule, petitioners...

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