AKIN v. BD. OF EDUCATION OF RIVERSIDE ETC. DIST.

Docket No. 8685.

262 Cal.App.2d 161 (1968)

68 Cal. Rptr. 557

KEVIN AKIN, a Minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RIVERSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

May 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.L. Wirin, Fred Okrand, Laurence Sperber and Tony Geram for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Ray T. Sullivan, Jr., County Counsel, James H. Angell, Assistant County Counsel, and W.W. Miller, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent.


KERRIGAN, Acting P.J.

Petitioners are mother and son. During the summer months of 1965, the 15-year-old minor, hereafter designated as "petitioner," grew a beard which was neat in appearance and trimmed regularly. On September 8 he enrolled at Polytechnic High School in Riverside, one of the secondary schools within the respondent-board's jurisdiction. He was suspended shortly thereafter solely for the reason that he refused to shave his beard as required by the board...

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