BOOKER v. GRAHAM

No. 18-739-pr August Term, 2019.

974 F.3d 101 (2020)

Amin B. BOOKER, aka Amin Booker, Plaintiff-Appellant, Jamaine Porter, Earnest Stokes, Paul Colon, Michael McCoy, Lawrence Wilson, Plaintiffs, v. Harold D. GRAHAM, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility; Grafton Robinson, Deputy Superintendent of Security, Auburn Correctional Facility; Captain Fagan, Auburn Correctional Facility; Donna Martin, Food Services Administrator, Auburn Correctional Facility; Mark Arria, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; Donald Carpenter, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; Thomas Stevens, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; Brian Griffin, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees, Justin Thomas, Deputy Superintendent of Programs, Auburn Correctional Facility; #2 John Doe, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; #3 John Doe, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; #4 John Doe, Food Health Administration Service Employee, Auburn Correctional Facility; #5 John Doe, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; #6 John Doe, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility; #1 John Doe, Correctional Officer, Auburn Correctional Facility, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 31, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen R. King ( Julie L. Rooney and Xinshu Sui , on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brian D. Ginsberg , Assistant Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, and Victor Paladino , Senior Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Letitia James , Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Leval, Lohier, and Park, Circuit Judges.


In 2013, prison officials at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, New York implemented a five-day lockdown to conduct a facility-wide frisk in response to a recent increase in violence and weapon confiscations. During the lockdown, which occurred during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, inmates were restricted from leaving...

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