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SIMS v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEP'T OF CORR.

No. 19-13745.

75 F.4th 1224 (2023)

Durell SIMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: July 31, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Francis Hancock , Joshua Conrad Carpenter , Olivia Waters Kelman , K&L Gates, LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Amit Agarwal , Holland & Knight, LLP, Tallahassee, FL, Daniel William Bell , Jeffrey Paul DeSousa , Erik Dewitt Kverne , Ashley Moody , James Hamilton Percival, II , Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Marcus Owen Graper , Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Lucas Croslow , Gordon D. Todd , Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, DC, Kathryn Pogin , Rev. Patrick E. Reidy , Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, for Amicus Curiae.

Before Branch, Grant, and Tjoflat, Circuit Judges.

Durell Sims—a Florida prisoner—says that he deserves a religious exemption from a Florida Department of Corrections rule that beards can only be a half-inch long. The district court agreed with him, and the Secretary of the Department does not push back on that substantive...

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