Legal Opinion
Shepherd v. Goord
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 15, 2011No. Docket 10-4821-prPublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:
New York State prisoner Eon Shepherd, who practices Rastafarianism, sued New York Department of Corrections officials Alan Twedt and Christopher Post, among others, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging inter alia that these two defendants infringed his rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by touching his dreadlocks without his consent. Following trial, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Shepherd but awarded him only $1.00 in actual damages.
Shepherd now appeals from that part of an amended judgment entered on October 26, 2010, in the United…
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