Roberts v. Coughlin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtLevine, J.
Appeal from that part of a judgment of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered July 21, 1989 in Greene County, which granted petitioners’ application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, and declared the practice of threatening petitioners with disciplinary sanctions for engaging in prayer during classroom breaks to be unconstitutional.
When this proceeding was originally commenced, all of the petitioners, practicing Moslems of the Islamic faith, were inmates at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in Greene County and enrolled in an evening college program run by the Junior College of…
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