JOLLY v. COUGHLIN

No. 92 Civ. 9026 (JGK).

894 F.Supp. 734 (1995)

Paul JOLLY, Plaintiff, v. Thomas COUGHLIN; Robert Greifinger; John P. Keane; C. Greiner; S. Kapoor, Defendants.

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

August 14, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Jolly, pro se.1

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of the State of New York, Barbara K. Hathaway, Assistant Attorney General, New York City, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

KOELTL, District Judge:

This case presents a conflict between the enforcement of a mandatory tuberculosis (or "TB") screening program instituted by the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") and the demonstrated religious convictions of a prison inmate who has refused to submit to the screening test. The plaintiff, who is twenty-eight years old and who has been confined in medical keeplock since he refused to take the...

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