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POTTER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. CIV.A. 01-1189(JR).

382 F.Supp.2d 35 (2005)

Calvert L. POTTER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 11, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur B. Spitzer, American Civil Liberties Union, Paul Charles Vitrano, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, Michael C. Boteler, Joshua A. Doan, William D. Iverson, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Daniel Aronowitz, Ulico Insurance Group, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Jonathan F. Potter, Robert C. Utiger, Office of Corporation Counsel, D.C., Thomas Louis Koger, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Civil Litigation Division, Joseph Edward Hartman, Fulbrigh & Jaworski, LLP, Jonathan Eli Zimmerman, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Theodore C. Hirt, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Thomas E. Caballero, The United States Senate, Washington, DC, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERTSON, District Judge.

Calvert Potter, Tarick Ali, and Hassan Umrani are District of Columbia firefighters. They are Muslims who wear beards as a matter of religious observance. Their beards have been controversial. In May 2001, they sued to establish the proposition that a grooming policy of the fire department (now the Fire and Emergency Medical Service, or FEMS, hereinafter the "Department" or the "District") violated their rights...

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