Legal Opinion
May v. Baldwin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 19, 1997No. 95-35860PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:
Oregon state prisoner David May appeals the entry of summary judgment for George Baldwin, the Superintendent at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (“EOCI”), and other officials at EOCI (collectively, the “prison officials”) in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief. May contends that, under the standards mandated by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-l (1994), the prison officials violated his free exercise rights when they required him to unbraid his dreadlocks for a search. In…
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