Kaitlyn Noel Chenevert , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.
Jacob Isaac Chefitz , Adeel A. Mangi , Attorneys, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Campus Ministry of Roman Catholic Archdiocese, of New York at Hostos and Bronx Community College of City University of New York.
Brian Paul Morrissey , Gordon D. Todd , Attorneys, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
Francesca Genova Matozzo , Attorney, Religious Liberty Clinic, Notre Dame, IN, Notre Dame, IN, for Amicus Curiae Bruderhof.
Noel J. Francisco , Attorney, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Byron Johnson.
Joshua C. McDaniel , Attorney, Harvard Law School, Religious Freedom Clinic, Cambridge, MA, for Amicus Curiae Douglas Laycock.
Gabriel Gillett , Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Agudath Israel of America.
Before Flaum, Rovner, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.
St. Eve, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Walker, a Rastafarian whose religious beliefs prohibit him from cutting his hair, was an Illinois state prisoner at Dixon Correctional Center when prison officials forced him to remove his dreadlocks. He sued the prison officials, the prison warden, and the director of the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC...
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