Petitioner, an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County serving an 8 1/3 to 25-year sentence, petitioned to have his name changed to Youseff Shalom Ali for the reason that the "assumption of a new name will conform to the practice and ideals of" his Islamic faith. County Court summarily denied the petition on the ground that the name change would result in recordkeeping problems for various State agencies and that petitioner...
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