Religion Roundup
Appeals Court Backs Prison Chaplains
The Associated Press
April 30, 2008
ATLANTA - An appeals court panel says a federal judge should have dismissed a lawsuit filed against two former prison chaplains by a Jewish inmate who claimed religious discrimination.
Joaquin Terrero, a former inmate of the federal low-security prison in Jesup, Georgia, sued the warden and ex-chaplains David Fox and Wes Lamb, claiming they infringed his rights by failing to provide him with the means of celebrating the seven-day Jewish festival of Sukkot in October 2001.
Fox and Lamb maintained that they had a qualified immunity from such a suit as prison employees, but a federal district judge refused to dismiss the claims against them.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision yesterday.
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