WESTLEY v. ROSSI

No. 5-69 Civ. 50.

305 F.Supp. 706 (1969)

Bruce Daniel WESTLEY, a minor by his mother and natural guardian, Mrs. Jane Westley, Plaintiffs, v. Douglas ROSSI, Alfred Norberg, Stanley Wilenski, Dr. John Weber, Lyle Bourdon, Spencer Nelson, Robert Smith and Harry Norr, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Fifth Division.

October 9, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I. Kampf, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiff.

Rosenmeier & Simonet, by Gordon Rosenmeier, Little Falls, Minn., for defendants.

Korstad, Pokorny, Brophey & Lucas, by William B. Korstad, Minneapolis, Minn., for Minnesota Ass'n of School Administration.

Minnesota Ass'n of Secondary School Principals requested and was granted permission to file a brief amicus curiae.


NEVILLE, District Judge.

In conflict here is a 17 year old boy (appearing by his mother as natural guardian) who wears his hair at shoulder length and the members of the Board of Education, having jurisdiction over the Little Falls, Minnesota public high school where the school authorities adopted a rule providing: "Boys should have neat conventional male haircuts and be clean shaven." On August 25, 1969 at the opening of the fall term which would have started plaintiff...

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