BOOTH v. MARYLAND

No. 02-1657.

327 F.3d 377 (2003)

Jonathan F. BOOTH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of MARYLAND, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; Lamont W. Flanagan, Commissioner; William Jednorski, Warden; George Childs, Chief of Security; Herbert H. Aiken; Michael A. Joiner, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John B. Stolarz, Stolarz & Bricker, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Glenn Todd Marrow, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

Before LUTTIG, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Traxler wrote the opinion, in which Judge Luttig and Judge King joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge:

Jonathan F. Booth, a uniformed correctional officer employed by the State of Maryland, filed this action against the State and five of its employees after he was subjected to disciplinary action for wearing his hair in dreadlocks in violation of his employer's dress code...

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