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SALAAM v. LOCKHART

Nos. 89-2341, 89-2355.

905 F.2d 1168 (1990)

Bilal Ali SALAAM, a/k/a Kevin Robinson and Khalil Al-Baaqee Saleem Abdullah, a/k/a Willie Blevins, Appellants, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Superintendent of Arkansas Department of Correction, and Larry Norris, Warden, Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees. Bilal Ali SALAAM, a/k/a Kevin Robinson and Khalil Al-Baaqee Saleem Abdullah, a/k/a Willie Blevins, Appellees, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Superintendent of Arkansas Department of Correction, and Larry Norris, Warden, Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 13, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Donovan, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Leslie M. Powell, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before ARNOLD and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 27, 1990.

HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1984, while incarcerated in an Arkansas state prison, Bilal Ali Salaam had his name legally changed by a state court after he converted to the Islamic faith. Salaam brought a pro se suit in 1986 seeking injunctive relief from the policy of Arkansas prison authorities to use only committed names on prison records and clothing, and in the mail room. The district court refused...

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