Legal Opinion
Kuperman v. Wrenn
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 14, 2011No. 10-2083PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Albert Kuperman, a former inmate at the New Hampshire State Prison, challenges a district court order granting summary judgment to the defendant prison officials. The New Hampshire State Prison system requires all inmates to be clean-shaven, unless they obtain a waiver based on a medical condition or on their religious beliefs. 1 An inmate who obtains a shaving waiver based on his religious beliefs may “maintain a 1/4-inch neatly trimmed beard.”
While incarcerated in state prison, Kuperman, an Orthodox Jew, filed a pro se complaint claiming that he should not have been…
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