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FRANCIS v. KEANE

No. 93 Civ. 0045 (JGK).

888 F.Supp. 568 (1995)

Andrew FRANCIS and Raymond Brown, Plaintiffs, v. John P. KEANE, Superintendent of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Joseph Demskie, Acting Superintendent of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Thomas Coughlin, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Deputy Superintendent, Greiner, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Lieutenant A. Enceneat, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Captain M. Watford, New York State Department of Correctional Services, Thomas Testo, Director of Labor Relations, New York State Department of Correctional Services, Defendants.

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

June 7, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James I. Meyerson, New York City, for plaintiffs.

August L. Fietkau, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., Dept. of Law, New York City, for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

KOELTL, District Judge:

This case presents a conflict between two correctional officers' rights to the free exercise of religion and a grooming regulation that has been applied to them. The plaintiffs, two African-American correctional officers at Sing Sing Correctional Facility ("Sing Sing" or "facility"), are members and followers of the Rastafarian Church. The plaintiffs were ordered by their...

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