Kuhn v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.

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• holding that prison official could not deny inmate kosher meals based on rabbiʹs determination that inmate was not Jewish under Judaic law
• holding that it was the sincerity of a prisoner’s beliefs, and not the decision of Jewish religious authorities, that determined whether the prisoner was an adherent of Judaism entitled to a kosher meal
• holding that it was the sincerity of a prisoner’s beliefs, and not the decision of Jewish religious authorities, that deter- mined whether the prisoner was an adherent of Judaism entitled to a kosher meal
• noting that defendant had long listed his religious preference as Jewish and that he had gone days without eating to avoid consuming non-Kosher food
• denying qualified immunity to prison officials who refused prisoner a kosher diet in reliance upon prison rabbi’s advice that prisoner was not a Jew under Jewish law
• reversing grant of summary judgment where there were genuine issues of material fact regarding whether a plaintiffs religious beliefs were sincerely held

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