United States Second Circuit

District court must determine whether the denial of the Eid ul Fitr feast to a practicing Muslim prisoner was reasonably related to a legitimate penological interest. If necessary, the court should then consider whether the defendants nevertheless could have reasonably believed their conduct to be justified by a legitimate penological interest, and thus are entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2003
• Published 12/15/2003

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  SOTOMAYOR, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and POLLACK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stuart W. Gold, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (Rachel G. Skaistis, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marion Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.