Legal Opinion
Crawford v. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 2009No. 08-2100PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction (the “DOC”) appeals an injunction entered in favor of the plaintiffs-appellees Mac S. Hudson and Derrick Tyler (together, the “Plaintiffs”). After careful consideration, we affirm.
The Plaintiffs are Muslim inmates in the custody of the DOC. In 2001, they filed a non-class action complaint, later amended, asserting that the Commissioner violated their right to freely exercise their religion.
At issue in this appeal is the ability to participate in Jum’ah, which is “a Friday group prayer that is obligatory…
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