IRON EYES v. HENRY

No. 88-2586.

907 F.2d 810 (1990)

Robert IRON EYES, Appellant, v. Dan HENRY (Assistant Superintendent) individually and official capacities; Joe Rosenberg (Captain) individually and official capacities; Charles E. Harris (Major) individually and official capacities; Dennis Dowd, in his individual and official capacities, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Todd Iveson, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Erwin O. Switzer, III, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MAGILL, Circuit Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Robert Iron Eyes appeals from the district court's1 order dismissing his complaint for damages and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). Iron Eyes is a Sioux Indian and was an inmate at Missouri's Farmington Correctional Center.2 He challenges a prison grooming regulation which requires all prisoners to wear their hair above their collars. Iron Eyes has had his...

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