Special Collection: Martin Sostre cases

Martin Sostre

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This collection covers a series of important prison litigation cases filed in New York federal courts by American prisoners' rights movement activist Martin Sostre.

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Cases (5)

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Sostre v. McGinnis

62-cv-28785 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 1964

Prison religious rights lawsuit secured Muslim inmates' right to worship at Attica.

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Pierce v. LaVallee

1:59-cv-07813 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: June 17, 1963

Religious discrimination lawsuit about Muslim prisoners' rights in New York prison denied by courts in early 1960s.

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Sostre v. Preiser

6:73-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1973

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 1978

New York prison civil rights case over strip searches ended after prisoner's release.

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Sostre v. Otis

1:70-cv-01114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 1, 1970

Prison lawsuit challenging mail censorship in New York prisons won reforms.

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Sostre v. Rockefeller

1:68-cv-04058 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 1968

Closed Date: March 15, 1972

New York prison rights case challenging solitary confinement and mail censorship policies.