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KAROLIS v. NEW JERSEY DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Civil Action No. 95-2241 (JEI).

935 F.Supp. 523 (1996)

John KAROLIS, Plaintiff, v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey E. Fogel, Newark, NJ, for plaintiff.

Deborah T. Poritz, Attorney General of New Jersey by Andrew R. Sapolnick, Deputy Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, for defendant New Jersey Department of Corrections.

AMENDED OPINION

IRENAS, District Judge:

Plaintiff John Karolis ("Karolis"), a New Jersey prison inmate, seeks an injunction declaring that he need not submit to the Mantoux tuberculosis ("TB") test, a subcutaneous injection which plaintiff claims violates the tenets of his Christian Science faith. Because preventing the spread of TB is a compelling state interest that cannot be met by a less restrictive means, the Court finds that neither the First Amendment...

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