FAGG, Circuit Judge.
James Hill, an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that a prison grooming regulation prohibiting the growing of beards by prison inmates violates his first amendment right to exercise freely his religion. The district court agreed with Hill and thus enjoined enforcement of the regulation against Hill and other similarly situated inmates. We reverse.
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