Legal Opinion
Williams v. Annucci
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 10, 2018No. 15-1018; AUGUST TERM, 2017PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John M. Walker, Jr., Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant DeAndre Williams appeals from a memorandum and order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Mordue, J .). The district court, adopting the recommendation of the magistrate judge (Dancks, M.J. ), granted summary judgment to the defendants, various officials of the New York State Department of Corrections ("DOC"), on Williams's claim that the DOC's policy of not accommodating the dietary restrictions imposed by his Nazarite Jewish faith violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of…
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