Legal Opinion
Aziz v. LeFevre
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 26, 1981No. 937, Docket 80-2349PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
In this appeal Sunni Muslim inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, challenge the grant of summary judgment, 500 F.Supp. 725 (N.D.N.Y.1980), by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, James T. Foley, Judge, dismissing their complaint in which they allege that prison regulations were interfering with their First Amendment right of free exercise of religion. We reverse the grant of summary judgment and remand because the case as it comes to us contains disputed issues of fact on which the question of constitutional law may depend. In so…
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