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WATSON v. THOMPSON

Civ. A. No. 1474.

321 F.Supp. 394 (1971)

C. C. WATSON, as Next Friend of Duran Eugene Watson, a minor; Royce Rumsey, as Next Friend of Jimmy Rumsey, a minor, v. C. W. THOMPSON, Superintendent of Pittsburg County Line Consolidated Independent School District; Neal Hinson, Dean of Students of Pittsburg County Line Consolidated Independent School District; and Robert Taylor, R. K. Pendegrass, Robert Barnwell, Brown Bolton, John E. Smith, Marshall Hobbs and Emmett Phillips, Individually and as Members of the Board of Trustees of Pittsburg County Line Consolidated Independent School District.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Marshall Division.

January 6, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. C. Hancock, Pittsburg, Tex., for plaintiffs.

L. E. Bell, Jr., Pittsburg, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JUSTICE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this suit are two Pittsburg, Texas youths, and their fathers as next friends. The suit seeks vindication, under Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, of the youths' asserted constitutional right to wear long hair while attending local public high school. The defendants are the superintendent, dean of students, and members of the board of trustees of the Pittsburg County Line

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