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· 9/16/2004

William Alan Russell and Mark E. Garriott v. J.D. Richards

Citations

  • 384 F.3d 444
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 19388
  • 2004 WL 2066103

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  • holding that prison policy requiring inmates to delouse upon entering prison was logically related to asserted prison goal of protecting inmates and personnel from exposure to lice
  • noting that accommodating prisoner’s asserted right must not impose a greater than de minim-is cost on legitimate penological interest
  • concluding inmate’s liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment of delousing shampoo was overridden by jail policy designed to address legitimate interest in avoiding outbreaks of lice
  • concluding inmate’s liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment of delousing shampoo was overridden by jail policy designed to address legitimate interest in avoiding outbreaks of lice
  • concluding inmate’s liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment of delousing shampoo was overridden by jail policy designed to address legitimate interest in avoiding outbreaks of lice
  • concluding inmate’s liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment of delousing shampoo was overridden by jail policy designed to address legitimate interest in avoiding outbreaks of lice

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Judges: Easterbrook, Rovner, Williams

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