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ALI v. DIXON

No. 89-6505.

912 F.2d 86 (1990)

Rabah Muhammad ALI, a/k/a Robert Lee Thacker, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gary T. DIXON, Gene T. Cousins, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Lombard, argued, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., (Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Maureen F. Del Duca, Supervising Atty., Jeffrey E. McFadden, Jo-Anne D. Venneberg, Cindy Lebauer, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Jacob Leonard Safron, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., argued (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied October 12, 1990.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted summary judgment for defendant prison officials against the plaintiff, Rabah Muhammad Ali, a Muslim inmate who had alleged that certain prison practices violated his free exercise of religion rights under the first amendment. Ali has appealed.

I.

Ali converted to Islam after he began serving his sentence at Central Prison in Raleigh...

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