A prison official walking the fine line in the scheduling and observances for the various religions practiced by inmates is shielded by qualified immunity for taking one Rastafarian holiday off the calendar and replacing it with another, a judge has ruled.
Southern District Judge Katherine Polk Failla dismissed the lawsuit brought by inmates after an official modified the 2013 religious calendar for the state’s 66 institutions to remove Negus Day, the Oct. 7 anniversary of the birth of Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
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