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BENJAMIN v. COUGHLIN

No. 79 Civ. 0232(LLS).

708 F.Supp. 570 (1989)

Thomas BENJAMIN, Errol Dunkley, Frank Forrest, Barrington Gray, Newton Hannon, and Martin Spence, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, Commissioner, New York State Department of Correctional Services; Stephen Dalshiem, Superintendent, Ossining Correctional Facility; Eugene S. Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility; Harold Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Robert Selcor, Stephen Latimer, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, Albany, for defendants; Tarquin Jay Bromley, of counsel.

OPINION AND ORDER

STANTON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are Rastafarian inmates in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS").

Rastafari is a religion1 with roots in Jamaican culture. It has no hierarchy of religious authority, although Rastafarians recognize some who have studied the religion extensively as "elders," and no single religious text setting out the central tenets of Rastafarian...

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