Overton v. Coughlin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the shaving of the plaintiffs facial hair and the cutting of the plaintiffs locks would violate his right to the free exercise of his religion, (1) the defendants appeal from so much of an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bourgeois, J.), dated March 21, 1986, as, upon the plaintiffs motion for summary judgment, enjoined enforcement of so much of Directive No. 4914 of the New York State Department of Correctional Services as requires the plaintiff to have his locks cut, and (2) the plaintiff…
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