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FROMER v. SCULLY

No. 84 Civ. 5612 (CES).

649 F.Supp. 512 (1986)

Yevgen FROMER, Plaintiff, v. Charles J. SCULLY, Harold J. Smith, Walter Kelly, Everett W. Jones, Thomas A. Coughlin III, and Hirschel Jaffe, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

November 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen, New York City, for plaintiff; Eugene A. Gaer, Neil Miller, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants; Martha O. Shoemaker, Douglas Aronin, of counsel.

OPINION

STEWART, District Judge:

Plaintiff Yevgen Fromer, an inmate in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS"), challenges the constitutionality of DOCS Directive # 4914 to the extent that it requires him to shave or trim his beard to a length of no more than one inch.1 Fromer, an Orthodox Jew, claims that his religious beliefs prohibit him from shaving or trimming his facial hair. During...

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