Legal Opinion
Smith v. Haley
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided December 1, 2005No. Civil Action 2:01cv1430-TPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
Pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, plaintiff Tony Lee Smith, a former inmate in the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) system, brought this lawsuit naming various ADOC employees as defendants and claiming violations of various constitutional and statutory rights resulting from prison officials’ denial of his requests for certain religious accommodations to practice Odinism while he was incarcerated.
In the magistrate judge’s original and supplemental recommendations addressing defendants’ motions for summary judgment, he recommended that certain…
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