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MUHAMMAD v. CITY OF NEW YORK DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 539, Docket 96-2042

126 F.3d 119 (1997)

Abdul-Shahid Farrakhan MUHAMMAD, Plaintiff-Appellant, Darrell X. MCKINNEY, Victor Santos, Curtis McDowell, Uriah Webb, Horace Betard, Lashango Legrand, and Kenneth Hammonds, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Anthony Schembri, Commissioner, City of New York Department of Corrections; Allyn R. Sielaff, former Commissioner, City of New York Department of Corrections; and Catherine M. Abate, former Commissioner, City of New York Department of Corrections, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Karlan, New York City (Robin L. Baker, W. James Hall, Leslie E. Moore, Preetinder S. Bharara, Sue J. Nam, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Cheryl Payer, Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City (Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel, Stephen J. McGrath, Martha Calhoun, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: OAKES, KEARSE and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Abdul-Shahid Farrakhan Muhammad is a member of the Nation of Islam who was imprisoned awaiting trial from 1989 to 1991 in the Bronx House of Detention and various jails in Rikers Island in the City of New York. He claims that the New York City Department of Corrections ("DOC") and those responsible for administering the City prison system violated his rights under federal law by interfering with his religious liberties. Although in...

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