STULL v. SCHOOL BOARD OF WESTERN BEAVER JR.-SR. H. S.

No. 71-1674.

459 F.2d 339 (1972)

James Robert STULL, a minor, by his mother, Julie Stull Macleod, and his stepfather George Stuart MacLeod, et al., Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the WESTERN BEAVER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hymen Diamond, Monroeville, Pa., for appellants.

Robert C. Reed, Wallover, Scalera, Reed & Steff, Beaver, Pa., for appellees.

Before VAN DUSEN and JAMES ROSEN, Circuit Judges and EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I.

The School Board of the Western Beaver Junior-Senior High School (Board), like so many of its counterparts throughout the land, has promulgated a dress code which, inter alia, proscribes the wearing of hair covering the ears and below the collar line. James Robert Stull (James), a fifteen year old schoolboy, like so many of his peers, has adopted a hairstyle which offends the cited...

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