Harry Whitney Cross-Appellants v. Robert Brown Cross-Appellees

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

This is a prisoner civil rights case brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Jewish inmates at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (“SPSM”). They challenge a prison policy instituted in 1985 that prohibits them from congregating in weekly Sabbath services and an annual Passover Seder. The defendants-appellants/cross-appellees prison officials appeal from that portion of the district court’s decision requiring them to permit an annual Passover Seder. The plaintiffs-appellees/cross-ap-pellants inmates appeal from that portion of the district court’s decision rejecting…