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finding that the DOCCS beard exemption policy did not create a substantive due process right
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9:04-CV-1269.
August 18, 2008
WAYNE BARNES, No. D-62147, Bergen County Jail, Hackensack, NJ, Plaintiff, Pro Se.
MICHAEL G. McCARTIN, ESQ., Assistant Attorney General, HON. ANDREW M. CUOMO, Attorney General of the State of New York, The Capitol, Albany, NY, Counsel for Defendants.
ORDER
The above matter comes to me following a Report-Recommendation by Magistrate Judge George H. Lowe, duly filed on the 24th day of July, 2008. Following ten days from the service thereof, the Clerk has sent me the file, including any and all objections filed by the parties herein.
After careful review of all of the papers herein, including the Magistrate Judge's Report-Recommendation, and no objections submitted thereto, it is
ORDERED, that:
1. The Report-Recommendation is hereby adopted in its entirety.
2. The Defendants' motion for summary judgment (Dkt. No. 43) is granted.
3. The Clerk of the Court shall serve a copy of this Order upon all parties and the Magistrate Judge assigned to this case.
IT IS SO ORDERED.