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BEYAH v. COUGHLIN

No. 782, Docket 84-2371.

789 F.2d 986 (1986)

Abdul BEYAH, K. McDonald, H. Benitez, A. Robles, D. Boswell, K. Dukes, K. Richardson, M. Payne, J. Duffy, S. Dukes, and V. Baez, Plaintiffs, Abdul Beyah, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, Commissioner of DOCS; Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility; and J. Cochrane, Attica Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Lowenthal, New York City (Jonathan I. Blackman, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Robert Hermann, Sol. Gen., William J. Kogan, Asst. Sol. Gen. of State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, KEARSE, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Abdul Beyah, a New York State prisoner whose religion requires his abstention from contact with pork or pork products, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, John T. Curtin, Chief Judge, dismissing his complaint, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982), alleging that the refusal of the defendant prison officials to allow him to use soap containing no pork products violated...

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