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Sixth Circuit Finds Ohio Response to Jewish Prisoner's Hair 'Exaggerated'

Loaded on March 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News March, 2002, page 30
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Declaratory Judgment, Qualified Immunity, Religious Grooming. Location: Ohio.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case addressing an Ohio prisoner's suit over the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's (DORC) hairlength restriction "as applied," has reversed the district court's denial of qualified immunity to DORC defendants, but remanded the case for declaratory and injunctive proceedings, finding that DORC's ...

 

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