Tripathy v. Lockwood

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SANJAY TRIPATHY, Plaintiff, DECISION AND ORDER v. 19-CV-6614-MJP CAPTAIN LOCKWOOD, et al., Defendants. INTRODUCTION Pedersen, M.J. On August 21, 2019, plaintiff Sanjay Tripathy (“Plaintiff”), proceeding pro se, commenced this civil rights action against numerous defendants alleging that a laundry policy at Gowanda Correctional Facility violated his religious beliefs as a Hindu. (Compl., ECF No. 1.) He thereafter filed two amended complaints asserting similar claims, but in which he either limited the scope of the defendants or added…