Legal Opinion
Pugh v. Goord
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 24, 2003No. Docket No. 02-0030PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESLEY, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Thomas Pugh, Edward Ham-il and Clay Chatin, acting pro se, brought this civil rights action (42 U.S.C. § 1983) against several senior administrators of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”) and Fishkill Correctional Facility (“FishkiH”). Appellants are incarcerated Shiite Muslims. They contend, among other things, that DOCS has refused to allow them to hold their own congregate prayer services separate from Sunni Muslim inmates in violation of their constitutional and federal statutory rights. Early on in the litigation, appellants…
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