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KNIGHT v. THOMPSON

No. 12-11926.

796 F.3d 1289 (2015)

Ricky KNIGHT, Franklin Irvin, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Thomas Otter Adams, suing individually and on behalf of a class of persons similarly situated, Billy Two Feathers Jones, suing individually and on behalf of a class of persons similarly situated, et al., Consol. Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Leslie THOMPSON, in his individual capacity, Donald Parker, et al., Defendants-Appellees, William S. Stricker, Ellen Ruth Leonard, et al. individually and in their official capacity, Consol. Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 5, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Sabel , Sabel Law Firm, LLC, Montgomery, AL, Peter Sean Fruin , Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Joseph D. Steadman , Dodson & Steadman, PC, Mobile, AL, Kim Tobias Thomas , Alabama Department of Corrections, Luther J. Strange, III , Alabama Attorney General's Office, Andrew Weldon Redd , Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before HULL and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, male inmates of the Alabama Department of Corrections ("ADOC"), brought this suit under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seq., to challenge the ADOC's "short-hair policy." The short-hair policy forbids Plaintiffs from wearing their hair unshorn in...

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