United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit challenging a prison hair grooming policy, denial of plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction is reversed where he has established a likelihood of success on the merits and the possibility that the grooming policy will cause him to suffer an irreparable injury based on his Native American religious beliefs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2004
• Decided 07/29/2005
• Published 07/29/2005

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: PREGERSON, TASHIMA, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Audrey Huang (Argued and Briefed), Bingham, McCutchen, Los Angeles, CA;  Ben Wizner (Briefed), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Rittmayer (Argued) and Barry G. Thorpe (Briefed), Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.