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PUGH v. GOORD

Docket No. 02-0030.

345 F.3d 121 (2003)

Thomas PUGH, Jr., Edward Hamil and Clay Chatin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Errol Ennis, Plaintiff, v. Glenn S. GOORD, Commissioner of D.O.C.S., William Mazzuca, Supt. F.C.F., Ada Perez, Dupt. of Program F.C.F., Lewis Goidel, Grievance Supervisor, Thomas Eagen, Grievance Director, Warith Deen Umar, Administrative Chaplain, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 24, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. ANDREW KENT, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

SACHIN S. PANDYA, Assistant Solicitor General for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of New York, (Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Richard S. Mezan, for Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Amicus Curiae.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, CALABRESI, WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

RICHARD C. WESLEY, Circuit Judge.

Appellants Thomas Pugh, Edward Hamil and Clay Chatin, acting pro se, brought this civil rights action (42 U.S.C. § 1983) against several senior administrators of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") and Fishkill Correctional Facility ("Fishkill"). Appellants are incarcerated Shiite Muslims. They contend, among other things, that DOCS has refused to allow them to hold their own congregate prayer services...

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