LAWSON v. DUGGER

No. 86-5774.

840 F.2d 781 (1987)

Robert LAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Richard L. DUGGER, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl J. Zahner, Jason Vail, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, State of Fla., Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

Peter M. Siegel, Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before JOHNSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


ATKINS, Senior District Judge:

Appellants, Florida prison officials, appeal from a judgment following a bench trial, holding unconstitutional the acts of the Florida Department of Corrections which restricted members of the class — prisoners — from access to the religious literature of the Hebrew Israelite faith and from otherwise exercising their right to religious expression within the prison context. The appellee cross-appellants also claimed their...

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