Agrati v. Laird

440 F.2d 683 Don AGRATI, aka Don Grady, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Honorable Melvin LAIRD, Secretary of Defense, Honorable Stanley Resor, Secretary of the Army, General W. J. Sutton, Chief of Army Reserves, General Louis B. Kaufman, Commander of 63rd Arcom, Colonel Joseph G. Rebman, Commander 311th Support Brigade, Defendants-Appellees. No. 26291. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. March 24, 1971. Richard E. Posell (argued), Hollywood, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. L. Douglas Brown, Asst. U. S. Atty., (argued), Robert L. Meyer, U. S. Atty., Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Chief of Civ. Div., Gary H. Giesler, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Before CARTER, KILKENNY and TRASK, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: 1 Petitioner, a member of the United States Army Reserve, seeks a declaratory judgment, a writ of mandamus and injunctive relief to prevent the respondents from enforcing, as to him, Army Regulation 600-20 relating to permissible length of hair. The district court denied the petition and dismissed the action. We affirm. 2 The United States Supreme Court declared in Orloff v. Willoughby, 345 U.S. 83, 93 , 73 S.Ct. 534, 540 , 97 L.Ed. 842 (1953): 3…