VAN HOOSE v. EIDSON

No. 71-1542.

450 F.2d 746 (1971)

Floyd VAN HOOSE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William P. EIDSON et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

August 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence E. Norton, Thomas M. Place, Mountain People's Rights, Prestonsburg, Ky., for appellants on memorandum in opposition to motion to dismiss.

John M. Williams, Robert P. Woods, Ashland, Ky., for appellees on motion to dismiss.

Before BROOKS, MILLER and KENT, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

This is an appeal from a District Court order which denied relief to the appellant, a high school student who had been suspended for violation of the "Student and Employee Hair Code" of Boyd County High School (Kentucky), because his hair was too long.

In March, 1971, the Boyd County Board of Education adopted what is referred to as a "Hair Code." In the same month the four plaintiffs below were suspended from school for violation of the "hair code...

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