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Dismissal of Haircut Suits Reversed
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 25
In two brief, separate rulings, the court of appeals for the Eighth circuit reversed and remanded the dismissal of lawsuits challenging prison haircut rules by Rastafarian prisoners. In one case, the court held the district court had improperly concluded the plaintiff had not exhausted his administrative remedies.
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Grooming Rules,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Grooming.
Locations:
Arkansas,
Missouri.
Dwight Cofer, a …
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