HEARD v. FINCO

No. 18-2371.

930 F.3d 772 (2019)

Lamont Bernard HEARD, William M. Johnson, Jamero T. Moses, Anthony Lee Nelson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tom FINCO, Defendant, and Brad Purves, Dietician and Food Service Manager, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: July 15, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Daniel Manville , CIVIL RIGHTS CLINIC, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, East Lansing, Michigan, for Appellants. Patrick S. Myers , MICHIGAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.

Before: GUY, THAPAR, and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

"[G]odliness has value for all things." 1 Timothy 4:8. But how do you quantify that value? See Quran 83:1 (M.A.S. Abdel Haleem trans., 2004) ("Woe to those who give short measure!"). In our legal system, we typically let the jury decide. And in this case, a jury determined that four Muslim inmates...

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