Legal Opinion
Mayweathers v. Newland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 2001No. Nos. 00-16708, 01-15170PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:
California State Prison administrators appeal a preliminary injunction granted and later renewed by the district court in a class action brought by Muslim inmates at California State Prison, Solano (“Solano”). The injunctions forbade prison administrators from disciplining inmates for missing work to attend hour-long Friday Sabbath services called Jumu’ah. We affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Solano is a medium security prison about thirty-five miles southwest of Sacramento. Nearly 4,500 inmates out of a total of about 5,800 are enrolled in the prison’s work…
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