Legal Opinion
Lawson v. Singletary
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 1996No. 94-4663PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Per curiam
This case began as a pro se complaint by plaintiff-appellee Robert Lawson, filed in 1983. Counsel was appointed, and a class certified. The plaintiff class represented by Lawson (hereinafter “Hebrew Israelites” or “plaintiffs”) is made up of members of the Hebrew Israelite faith currently serving time in the Florida prison system. The basis for their original complaint was that officials of the defendant-appellant, the Florida Department of Corrections (hereinafter “the Department”), refused to allow certain religious texts, published by the Hebrew Israelites at their headquarters, the…
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