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

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

MICHAEL DOUGLAS McNEIL, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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. FILED 

Umted States Col!rt of Appeals 

Temh Circuit 

JAN l O 1990 

R.OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

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RON CHAMPION; GARY D. MAYNARD, ) 

No. 89-5106 

(D.C. No. 89-C-387-B) 

( N. D. Ok la . ) 

Warden; JERRY JOHNSON, Warden; ) 

HENRY HUTCUERSON; CARLIE ARNOLD; ) 

PETE IVERSON; MARVIN KENNAN; ) 

GERALD DYKES; LARRY CAVES; LINDA ) 

LAZELLE; JO KENDRICK; LARRY ) 

FIELDS; PETE TROUT; MARY WOODEN; ) 

WILLIE ALEXANDER; and CINDY VOSS, ) 

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Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Plaintiff, a prisoner in the Oklahoma prison system, brought 

a prose suit against sixteen defendants, seeking damages and 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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injunctive relief. He generally asserts violations of freedom of 

religion, equal protection, due process, and restrictions on his 

access to the courts. His complaint, brief in support thereof, 

and exhibits consist of eighty-nine pages. From those documents 

and the briefs filed on appeal, it is apparent that the plaintiff 

is attacking the grooming and dietary policies of the Oklahoma 

prison system as they are applied to him. 

The trial court dismissed, without prejudice, the complaint 

as frivolous after parsing all of the documents filed by 

plaintiff. After reviewing the same documents and the briefs 

filed on appeal, we conclude for essentially the reasons set forth 

in the trial court's opinion that the complaint was properly 

dismissed. To establish an invasion of his freedom of religion, 

plaintiff must set forth substantially more than he has managed to 

do. On appeal, plaintiff alleges an abuse of discretion in not 

permitting him to amend his complaint. Since he made no request 

of the trial court to amend his complaint, it cannot be said that 

the trial court abused its discretion. 

AFFIRMED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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