Legal Opinion

Homer Reed v. Gordon Faulkner

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 29, 1988No. 87-1632PublishedCited by 91 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Homer Reed, an inmate in an Indiana state prison, has sued the prison’s officials, charging that they infringed his religious liberty and deprived him of the equal protection of the laws by enforcing against him a prison regulation that forbids male inmates to wear their hair so long that it touches the collar. The defendants on one occasion forced Reed to cut several inches off his shoulder-length “dreadlocks” (“long, ropy, matted, woolly strands,” Note, Soul Rebels: The Rastafarians and the Free Exercise Clause, 72 Geo.LJ. 1605, 1608 (1984)), and on other occasions…

2Cases cited13 opinions

Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
Goldman v. WeinbergerSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
Qaid Rafeeq Azeez and Abdullah Muhammad v. James W. Fairman, Warden, John E. Wright, Asst. Warden, and A. Dodge, 120 (c.o.)Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
Melvin A. McCabe and Mark H. Madsen v. Arvon J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiary Al Murphy, Director, Idaho State Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
Albert Garza v. Harold G. Miller, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982

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3Cited by91 opinions

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