Jeffrey E. Johnson Bruce Howard Shore, in No. 97-3581 v. Martin F. Horn Raymond J. Sobina, in No. 97-3582

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• holding that, although the issue was not raised in the complaint or plaintiff 's motion for summary judgment, where district court was on notice that there was an issue and parties addressed it on the merits, we may reach the merits of the claim
• finding that only two other circuits had spoken to the issue at hand and that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was silent
• choosing not to resolve the \difficult question\ of whether and to what extent decisions from sister circuits may be considered in the qualified immunity analysis
• choosing not to resolve the “difficult question” of whether and to what extent decisions from sister circuits may be considered in the qualified immunity analysis
• in such cases \the importance of alternative means of religious observance is an irrelevant consideration\
• in such cases \the importance of alternative means of religious observance is an irrelevant consideration\

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