John Walker Lindh, also known as Yahya Lindh, filed a class action against the federal prison system for allegedly violating the rights of Muslim inmates by not allowing them to hem their pants above the ankle, as Lindh says the Koran requires.
Because he also included a claim against a prison policy of strip-searching inmates before visitations, U.S. District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson on May 20 struck the complaint for improperly joining two claims under the same case number. The judge gave Lindh until May 27 to file a separate action. Read the judge’s order here.
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