BUTTS v. DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Civ. A. No. 3-3471-C.

306 F.Supp. 488 (1969)

Ruth J. BUTTS, Next Friend of Mike Butts; Barbara Reagan, Next Friend of Pat Reagan; Catherine Perrine, Next Friend of Douglas Perrine; Majorie Lynn, Next Friend of Janet Lynn; Margaret Roth, Next Friend of Judy Roth; and Mrs. Elaine Case, Next Friend of Phil Thompson, Plaintiffs, v. DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and Nolan Estes, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

December 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Menaker, R. M. Ginsberg, and W. D. Masterson, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Franklin E. Spafford and Warren Whitham, of Spafford, Freedman, Hamlin, Gay & Whitham, Dallas, Tex., for defendants.


OPINION

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., District Judge.

This is an action filed by the next friends of six minors. Said minors range in age from 15 years to 17 years and attend Dallas High Schools. They seek to enjoin the Dallas Independent School District and Superintendent Nolan Estes from enforcing the School District's policy of prohibiting the wearing of black armbands in the various Dallas Schools. At the request...

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