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Kosher Meals Lawsuit Against Nevada DOC Dismissed
Loaded on March 4, 2015
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2015, page 36
Filed under:
Religious Diet.
Location:
Nevada.
Kosher Meals Lawsuit Against Nevada DOC Dismissed
by Matt Clarke
On August 12, 2012, a Nevada federal district court approved a notice of proposed settlement in a class-action civil rights suit brought by a Jewish prisoner over the announced intent of the Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) to stop providing ...
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