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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Suddaby enters judgment in favor of New York state’s prison system on equitable relief claims alleging that it failed to properly respond to an inmate advocacy group’s request for documents related to a group of inmates, one of whom died while in prison custody. The 11th Amendment bars the federal judiciary from issuing declaratory relief against state officials for past violations, and in regards to the merits on their claims, the court finds the laws regulating disclosure of inmate documentation, which states document requests must be fulfilled within three days, is geared more towards copy requests made in person upon physical inspection at the respective prison facility, to allow the document custodian to properly review the documents to ensure inmates’ privacy is protected.