Legal Opinion
Rourke v. New York State Department of Correctional Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 28, 1994PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Yesawich Jr., J.
Petitioner, a full-blooded Native American and member of *181the Mohawk Nation, was employed by respondent Department of Correctional Services (hereinafter the Department) as a correction officer from 1989 until his termination in 1993. In early 1991, petitioner, who was then assigned to Riverview Correctional Facility, became a practitioner of the Longhouse faith, the traditional religion of the Mohawks, and in accordance with the tenets of that faith ceased cutting his hair.
In the summer of that year, respondent Howard Maneely, then Deputy Superintendent of…
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