Legal Opinion
Alan Kimbrough McFadden v. Eddie Lucas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 1, 1983No. 82-4472PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff, an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, filed this pro se section 1983 suit against the warden, associate warden, chaplain and administrator of Unit 23 at Parchman. The essence of the plaintiff’s complaint was that his first amendment right to the free exercise of his Sunni Moslem religion had been violated and that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of his eighth amendment rights when, after he had refused to shave his Moslem beard in conformance with prison regulations, twenty-two prison…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Hughes v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Rochin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Johnson v. GlickCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Anthony F. McDonald v. Frank A. HallCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
- Williams v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
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3Cited by175 opinions
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- Martin v. SargentCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Spencer v. RhodesDistrict Court, E.D. North Carolina · 1987
- Charles J. Oltarzewski, Jr. v. Marcia RuggieroCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
- Trevis Caldwell v. Warden, FCI TalladegaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
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