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MILLER v. GILLIS

No. 69 C 1841.

315 F.Supp. 94 (1969)

David MILLER, a minor, and Ben F. Miller III and Alice Miller, individually and as parents and next friend, Plaintiffs, v. J. Walter GILLIS, Elizabeth M. Rueck, Robert A. Madding, Robert M. Baker, John Fencik, George B. Foy, Edwin A. Troutt, Thomas E. English, Sears L. Hallett, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Raymond J. Van Royden, and Paul L. Williams, each individually and as members or agents of the Board of Education, School District #224, County of Lake, State of Illinois, a body politic and corporate, and the Board of Education School District #224, County of Lake, State of Illinois, a body politic and corporate, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 25, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton Joseph, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs; David Goldberger, American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Allyn J. Franke and Ralph Miller, Norman, Engelhardt, Billick, Franke & Lauritzen, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PARSONS, District Judge.

The question presented by this case is whether a publically supported school district operating under state law that gives it authority to discipline pupils who attend its schools can refuse re-admission to or expel from its high school a male pupil who wears his hair shoulder length without violating some right guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States.

It must be made clear...

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