Grigger v. Goord

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Spargo, J.), entered September 27, 2005 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Central Office Review Committee denying his grievance.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, filed a grievance challenging respondent’s policy prohibiting certain corn row hairstyles. His grievance was denied and he thereafter commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking, among other things, to compel respondent to allow him to wear his hair braided from left-to-right rather…