JACKSON v. MANN

Docket No. 97-2968.

196 F.3d 316 (1999)

Nathaniel JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis F. MANN, Superintendent, Shawangunk C.F.; Paul Levine, Deputy Superintendent for Programs, Shawangunk C.F.; D. Taylor, Inmate Grievance Supervisor, Shawangunk C.F.; A. Goodman, Jewish Rabbi, Shawangunk C.F.; Leah Brunson, Counselor, Shawangunk C.F., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Beth Landau, Coudert Brothers, New York, N.Y. (Douglas F. Broder, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Julie S. Mereson, Assistant Attorney General, State of New York, Albany, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York, Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor General, State of New York, Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Attorney General, State of New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, KEARSE, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

BACKGROUND

Because this is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment for defendants, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the nonmoving party.

Nathaniel Jackson, an African-American, has been an inmate in the New York State prison system since 1986. When Jackson entered the prison system in 1986, he identified himself as Jewish. Jackson thereafter participated in the prison system's alternative...

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