MOORE v. STATE OF FLA.

No. 81-5589.

703 F.2d 516 (1983)

Samuel P. MOORE, # 050547, Petitioner, v. STATE OF FLORIDA and Agents Ray Henderson, Lauriston F. Hustus, Jr. and R.D. Hester, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Grantham, Tampa, Fla., for petitioner.

Bruce Barkett, Leonard George, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., for respondents.

Before KRAVITCH, HENDERSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Samuel P. Moore, a Florida prisoner, filed this civil rights action, pro se, alleging that he had been forced by prison authorities to shave his beard in violation of his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion, and in violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. He appeals from the trial court's grant of a summary judgment in favor of the defendants.1 After careful consideration...

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