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CRAWFORD v. CLARKE

No. 08-2100.

578 F.3d 39 (2009)

Antwan CRAWFORD; Darrick Wilson; Anthony Tucker, Plaintiffs, Mac S. Hudson; Derrick Tyler, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Harold W. CLARKE, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Defendant, Appellant, Kathleen Dennehy, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 24, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. McFarland, Legal Division, Department of Correction, with whom Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, was on brief for appellant Harold W. Clarke.

Michael Kendall, with whom Neal E. Minahan, David Quinn Gacioch, and McDermott Will & Emery LLP, were on brief for appellees Hudson and Tyler.

Before TORRUELLA, and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and TASHIMA, Senior Circuit Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction (the "DOC") appeals an injunction entered in favor of the plaintiffs-appellees Mac S. Hudson and Derrick Tyler (together, the "Plaintiffs"). After careful consideration, we affirm.

The Plaintiffs are Muslim inmates in the custody of the DOC. In 2001, they filed a non-class action complaint, later amended, asserting that the Commissioner violated their right to freely exercise...

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