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978 F.2d 1086

Docket No. 92-1212.

Sours v. Long

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted Oct. 22, 1992.

Decided Nov. 5, 1992.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1992-11-05

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1996

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Yamamoto v. United States · Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc. · United States Glass v. Medtronic Inc

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1992-11-05

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¶1William S. Daniel, St. Louis, Mo., argued, for appellant.

¶2Robert J. Krehbiel, St. Louis, Mo., argued, for appellees.

¶3Before JOHN R. GIBSON, BEAM, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5William Scott Sours appeals the district court’s1 order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint claiming interfer*1087ence with his first amendment right to freely exercise his religious beliefs. Sours alleged that defendants prohibited him from observing his “Vow of the Nazarite” by requiring him to cut his hair in accordance with Missouri Department of Corrections rules.

¶6We review de novo a district court’s grant of summary judgment. United States ex rel. Glass v. Medtronic, Inc., 957 F.2d 605, 607 (8th Cir.1992). Having carefully reviewed the record, we conclude the district court correctly granted summary judgment. See Iron Eyes v. Henry, 907 F.2d 810 (8th Cir.1990) (Missouri prison hair-grooming regulation does not unconstitutionally infringe on prisoners’ free-exercise rights); see also Campbell v. Purkett, 957 F.2d 535 (8th Cir.1992); Kemp v. Moore, 946 F.2d 588 (8th Cir.1991) (per curiam), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 112 S.Ct. 1958, 118 L.Ed.2d 560 (1992). We are bound to follow these decisions. Brown v. First Nat’l Bank in Lenox, 844 F.2d 580, 582 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1260, 109 S.Ct. 20, 101 L.Ed.2d 971 (1988).

¶7Accordingly, we affirm.

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