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BRIGHTLY v. WAINWRIGHT

Nos. 86-5071 to 86-5073, 86-5092.

814 F.2d 612 (1987)

Patrick BRIGHTLY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Dr. Ann I. Gispert, Lt. Mowery, and Sgt. E.C. Savoia, Defendants-Appellants. Joseph ROCHELLE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, C.P. Worthington, and Lt. N.C. Gemell, Defendants-Appellants. Samuel ESTRELLA, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louie WAINWRIGHT, Ana I. Gispert, Nancy Brown Balcerzak, and Lt. John Delashmet, Defendants-Appellants. Earl JOHNSON, Lukey Riley, Nathaniel Watts, Robert Owens, Bruce Simmons, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Vail, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Peter M. Siegel, Randall C. Berg, Jr., Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GODBOLD and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants in these cases, all officials of the Florida Department of Corrections, challenge the several rulings of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida holding unconstitutional, as applied, a regulation of the Florida Department of Corrections that requires all male inmates to have their hair cut short and to be clean-shaven. We reverse.

Each of the appellees is a Florida prison inmate. At the time they filed their...

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