United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff-Native American inmate unsuccessfully challenges defendant's hair length regulation, alleging it infringes his religious beliefs in violation of the First Amendment, where the regulation at issue is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2004
• Published 08/12/2004

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY, JR., and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip W. Henderson, pro se, Ione, CA, plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael G. Lee, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellee.