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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Proposed Order RE: Temporary Restraining Order

BILL LOCKYER, Attorney General

of the State of California

JAMES M. HUMES

Chief Assistant Attorney General

FRANCES T. GRUNDER

Senior Assistant Attorney General

JAMES E. FLYNN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

JOHN W. RICHES II, State Bar No. 206223

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 323-5915

Fax: (916) 324-5205

Attorneys for Defendants Zuniga, Lewis, 

Vanderpoel and Alameida

SA2003103594

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

MANGO WATTS,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,

et al.,

Defendants.

No. CIV F-03-5365 OWW DLB P

ORDER RE: TEMPORARY

RESTRAINING ORDER

ORDER

Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, is a prisoner currently incarcerated by the

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) at Pleasant Valley State

Prison (PVSP), Coalinga, California. Plaintiff’s operative first amended complaint

alleges, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that CDCR’s hair length grooming standards, Cal. Code

Regs. tit. 15, § 3062, violate the Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First and

Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, the Religious Land Use and

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Proposed Order RE: Temporary Restraining Order

Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq., and the Equal

Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. First Amend. Compl. at 2:6-22.

Plaintiff has moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary

injunction directing defendants to refrain from taking disciplinary recourse, and/or threat

thereof, against plaintiff for his adherence to his religious convictions as a Rastafarian. 

In light of Warsoldier v. Woodford, --- F.3d ----, 2005 WL 1792117 (9th Cir.

2005), defendants’ counsel has stipulated to the entry of a temporary restraining order

limited solely to defendants refraining from enforcing, with respect to plaintiff Mango

Watts, CDCR #P-00041, the CDCR grooming standards requirement that male prisoners

maintain their hair no longer than three inches in length, Cal. Code Regs. tit. 15,

§ 3062(e). The time credits lost as a result of the disciplinary hearing for violation of the

grooming standards have been restored. First Amended Compl. at p. 2:24-26. Plaintiff is

not due to be released until 2011. 

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that, during the pendency of this

action, or until further order of this court, defendants shall refrain from enforcing, with

respect to plaintiff Mango Watts, CDCR #P-00041, the CDCR grooming standards

requirement that male prisoners maintain their hair no longer than three inches in length,

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 15, § 3062(e).

Dated: August 3, 2005 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER

United States District Judge

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