WOOD v. ALAMO HEIGHTS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. 29814 Summary Calendar.

433 F.2d 355 (1970)

Neale WOOD, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Katrina Wood, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALAMO HEIGHTS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Herrera, Jr., Herrera, Rocha & Segura, American Civil Liberties Union, San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

George H. Spencer, Thomas M. Thurmond, San Antonio, Tex., for defendants-appellees; Clemens, Knight, Weiss & Spencer, San Antonio, Tex., of counsel.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is another haircut case. The recent decisions of this court have pointed to the necessity that before the federal courts intervene in cases such as this there must be "such prior reference to local institutional authority as may be necessary to assure that the action complained of is final within the institution in the sense that it is ripe for adjudication." Stevenson v. Bd. of Education of Wheeler County, 426 F.2d 1154...

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