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MUSLIM v. FRAME

Civ. A. No. 93-0554.

897 F.Supp. 215 (1995)

Waahid MUSLIM, a/k/a David Richardson, Plaintiff, v. Thomas FRAME, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 23, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Schoeller, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff Waahid Muslim aka David Dewees Richardson.

Waahid Muslim, Coatesville, PA, pro se.

Deborah L. Doyle, Margolis, Edelstein, Scherlis, Sarowitz & Kraemer, Joseph Goldberg, Philadelphia, PA, C. Robert Elicker, Jr., Chester County Solicitor, West Chester, PA, for defendants Thomas G. Frame, Warden, Edward McFadden, Director of Treatment, Dale Guyer, Correctional Officer.

OPINION

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

Waahid Muslim filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the no-hats rule of Chester County Prison, under which inmates cannot wear hats in the prison common areas. Plaintiff professes to be a practicing Muslim and has asserted a desire to wear a kufi, the Muslim prayer cap, throughout the prison. In his complaint, plaintiff argued that the no-hats...

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