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TETERUD v. BURNS

No. 75-1066.

522 F.2d 357 (1975)

Jerry TETERUD, Appellee, v. Kevin J. BURNS, Individually and in his official capacity as Director of the Department of Social Services for the State of Iowa, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorna Lawhead Williams, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellants.

Roy S. Haber, Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., for appellee.

Allen L. Donielson, U. S. Atty., J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brian K. Landsberg, Walter W. Barnett, and Dennis J. Dimsey, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., filed brief for amicus curiae, United States.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, and LAY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Jerry Teterud, an American Indian inmate of the Iowa State Penitentiary, challenged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 a prison regulation prohibiting him from wearing long braided hair.1 He contended that the regulation deprived him of his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to: (a) freely exercise his religion; (b) freedom of expression; (c) govern his personal appearance...

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