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CAMPOS v. COUGHLIN

No. 94 Civ. 1057 (SS).

854 F.Supp. 194 (1994)

Tony CAMPOS and Alex Lance, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS"); Glenn Goord, Deputy Commissioner, DOCS; Earl B. Moore, Assistant Commissioner of Ministerial and Family Services, DOCS; John P. Keane, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility; E. Reynolds, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility; C. Greiner, Deputy Superintendent of Security Services, Sing Sing Correctional Facility; Thomas Eisenschmidt, Deputy Superintendent of Security Services, Oneida Correctional Facility; Sergeant Kennedy, Sing Sing Correctional Facility; Sergeant Salerno, Oneida Correctional Facility; Correctional Officer J. Knobloch, Oneida Correctional Facility; all individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 3, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Eric R. Dinallo and Brian G. Murphy of Counsel, for plaintiffs.

G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, Barbara K. Hathaway, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel, for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SOTOMAYOR, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, two inmates in the New York State prison system, are followers and practitioners of the Santeria religion who are challenging a recently implemented directive of the Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS").1 Plaintiffs seek injunctive and monetary relief for constitutional and statutory violations caused by the directive which prohibits prisoners from wearing...

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