(VTDigger) A Muslim inmate suing the state Department of Corrections claiming that prison food does not meet his religious dietery needs has lost his latest round in court seeking to make his case a class action.
Federal Magistrate Judge John Conroy issued a recent ruling finding prisoner Justin Russell has not met his legal burden to add other Muslim inmates to his lawsuit.
Russell, through his attorney, had submitted affidavits signed by six other inmates saying they would like to be added to the case, and had said that there are many [other] inmates seeking to join the lawsuit.
But, Conroy wrote in his recent ruling, that isn’t enough to make a case a class action.
