U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1971

John Edward Daugherty, and v. Ronald Reagan, Governor

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided August 17, 1971 · Chambers, Carter, Wright

446 F.2d 75 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

John Edward Daugherty, in pro. per., Evelle J. Younger, Cal. Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Cases that cite this one

4 later published cases cite this decision.

Poe v. Werner (District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania 1974)
Goulden v. Oliver Et Al. (Supreme Court of the United States 1979)
Wright v. Raines (District Court, D. Kansas 1978)
Thomas E. Hill v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections (5th Cir. 1976)

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Opinion

PER CURIAM:

Daugherty is a prisoner at California’s Folsom state penitentiary. Some regulation at the place requires him to get his hair cut. This he doesn’t like. So he filed a civil rights complaint against his warden, the attorney general, Governor Reagan and sundry other officials of the state. The district court dismissed. We affirm.

While little vestige remains of the old concept that a convict is civilly dead, we have not reached the point where we sec-cond guess the state authorities on the length of prisoners’ hair.

We do not reach the question of what his damages could conceivably be.

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