KLINKHAMMER v. RICHARDSON

No. 4-73 Civ. 71.

359 F.Supp. 67 (1973)

George KLINKHAMMER et al., Plaintiffs, v. Elliot RICHARDSON, Secretary of Defense, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

May 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tilsen, Heffernan & Wells by Donald J. Heffernan, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Robert G. Renner, U. S. Atty. by Stephen G. Palmer, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Allan A. Ryan, Jr., Captain, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, for defendants.


NEVILLE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, Minnesota members of the Ready Reserve component of the United States Marines, have brought this joint action to challenge the validity of the Marine Corps' regulation proscribing the wearing of a short hair wig at Reserve drills. The plaintiffs have endeavored to wear such wigs in order to keep their hair long as civilians in accordance with contemporary hair fashions and yet maintain the outward appearance of short hair at...

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