U.S. Appeals Court: BEARDS.

• Position: Brief Article

Green v. Polunsky, 229 F.3d 486 (5th Cir. 2000). A prison inmate brought a civil rights action against state prison officials challenging a grooming policy that barred him from wearing a quarter-inch beard. The district court dismissed the case and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the policy of refusing to allow inmates to wear any...