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CHAPMAN v. PICKETT

No. 75-2-041.

491 F.Supp. 967 (1980)

Edward Joseph X. CHAPMAN, Plaintiff, v. George PICKETT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. Illinois.

April 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane Geraghty, Northwestern Legal Assistance Clinic, Joseph Kattan, Thomas F. Geraghty, Northwestern Legal Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Warren White, Asst. U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., for defendants.

JUDGMENT

BAKER, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 concerning the First and Eighth Amendment rights of a Black Muslim prisoner who was placed in segregation for some 9½ months following his refusal on religious grounds to handle pork during a kitchen clean-up detail.

The case is here on its second remand. Chapman v. Pickett, 586 F.2d 22 (7th Cir. 1978) (...

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