Legal Opinion
Pugh v. Goord
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 31, 2008No. 00 Civ. 7279(RJS)PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RICHARD J. SULLIVAN, District Judge:
Plaintiffs Thomas Pugh, Jr., and Clay Chatin, each currently or previously incarcerated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”), bring this action against defendants Glenn S. Goord, Warith Deen Umar, Mark Leonard, John LoConte, Frank Headley, John Nuttal, William Mazzuca, Ada Perez, and Jimmie Harris (collectively “Defendants”) 1 alleging under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 violations of their constitutional and statutory rights to free exercise of Shi’a Islam 2 and to be free from the establishment of the Sunni branch of…
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