LAMBERT v. MARUSHI

Civ. A. No. 2787.

322 F.Supp. 326 (1971)

Emmett LAMBERT, by his next friend, his father, Dolford Lambert, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. A. R. MARUSHI, Principal, Logan High School, Logan, West Virginia; Thomas B. Orr, County Superintendent of Schools, Logan County, West Virginia; and Daniel B. Taylor, State Superintendent of Schools of the State of West Virginia, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia, Huntington Division.

February 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Andrew MacQueen, III, Charleston, W. Va., John J. McOwen, Huntington, W. Va., for plaintiff.

Thomas R. Parks, Asst. Pros. Atty., Logan County, Logan, W. Va., for defendants A. R. Marushi and Thomas B. Orr.

Cletus B. Hanley and Joseph E. Hodgson, Asst. Attys. Gen. of West Virginia, Charleston, W. Va., for Daniel B. Taylor.


CHRISTIE, District Judge:

In this action the plaintiff, an eleventh grade student at Logan High School, Logan, West Virginia, sixteen years of age, challenges on constitutional grounds the action of the school officials in suspending him from school unless and until he cut his hair to make it conform to school regulations previously adopted prescribing permissible mode of dress for male and female students. The particular regulation pertinent here is the one which...

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