Ross v. Coughlin

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KRAM, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Gerald Ross, is an orthodox Jewish inmate in the custody of New York State’s Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”). Ross seeks declaratory and injunctive relief as well as monetary damages against state prison officials. Plaintiff’s claims are grounded in the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1 . Specifically, plaintiff claims defendants have violated his right to receive kosher food, his freedom to possess and use religious articles…