Selah v. Goord.

• Position: Brief Article

U.S. District Court

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

RELIGION

Selah v. Goord, 255 F.Supp.2d 42 (N.D.N.Y. 2003). An inmate brought an action against a state corrections department, challenging its policy of placing inmates who refuse annual, mandatory tuberculosis skin tests on religious grounds, into tuberculin hold for one year. The district court granted the inmate's motion for a preliminary injunction. The court held that the tests were a violation of the inmate's right to free exercise of religion...