Legal Opinion
Qaid Rafeeq Azeez and Abdullah Muhammad v. James W. Fairman, Warden, John E. Wright, Asst. Warden, and A. Dodge, 120 (c.o.)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 1986No. 85-1330PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, Qaid Rafeeq Azeez and Abdullah Muhammad, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the warden and *1297other officials of the Pontiac Correctional Center, which is Illinois’ maximum-security prison, charging that the defendants had deprived the plaintiffs of their religious freedom by refusing to recognize their Islamic names. After a bench trial the district judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and entered judgments of $150 for each plaintiff, from which the defendants appeal.
Azeez and Muhammad were committed to Pontiac under the names Stanley Russell and…
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3Cited by166 opinions
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