A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of a Texas prison inmate who is demanding kosher food.
Attorneys for Max Moussazadeh, who is serving a 75-year sentence for a 1993 murder, made their case Oct. 1 before a three-judge panel of the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
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