Hurley v. Coughlin

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

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A consent decree (see Appendix) was entered into in this case on July 21, 1983, over the signatures of one of the then Assistant Attorney Generals of the State of New York, counsel for the plaintiffs, David Leven, Esq., *24Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and counsel for the intervenors, Claudia Angelos, Esq., Washington Square Legal Services of New York. The decree was on behalf of a class consisting “of all inmates in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services [“DOCS”] ... includ [ ] [ing] the subclass of Muslim inmates” in the…