In reviewing a case for the fourth time, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated a lower court’s granting of summary judgment to corrections officers based on qualified immunity.

The federal appeals court said the plaintiff—a practicing Muslim and now-former federal prisoner—had a “right to pray free of substantial, deliberate, repeated, and unjustified disruption by prison officials.”

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