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BENJAMIN v. COUGHLIN

Nos. 501, 502, Dockets 89-2265(L), 89-2267.

905 F.2d 571 (1990)

Thomas BENJAMIN, Errol Dunkley, Frank Forrest, Barrington Gray, Newton Hannon, and Martin Spence, on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, 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-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Selcov, New York City (Stephen M. Latimer, David C. Leven, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

Dennis J. Saffran, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, PIERCE and MINER, Circuit Judges.

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, Rastafarian inmates in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS"), appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stanton, J.) rejecting claims, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982), that various regulations and policies of DOCS violate their first amendment right to free exercise of their religion and their fourteenth...

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