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Keith Dillon

When Keith Dillon filed a lawsuit against a prison warden and six guards in Louisiana in connection with a severe, debilitating beating he suffered in 2005, the district court threw the case out. The court said Dillon had failed to, first, try an administrative remedy. But, no such thing had been available to him and, when Public Justice took that argument to a federal appeals court, the higher court agreed.

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Inderjit Singh

Inderjit Singh was denied a job as a shuttle bus driver by Air Serv Corporation because he wears a turban and beard, as required by his Sikh religion.

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