Aikens v. Bishop

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ANTHONY AIKENS, Plaintiff, v. DECISION AND ORDER 17-CV-1266S TIMOTHY HUNTER and JACOB MONKELBAAN, Defendants. I. INTRODUCTION In this action, pro se Plaintiff Anthony Aikens alleges, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that Defendants Timothy Hunter and Jacob Monkelbaan violated his First Amendment rights while he was an inmate in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS”). In particular, he asserts that Defendants deprived him of his right to the free exercise of religion by denying him…