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21 T. Marshall L. Rev. 185 (1995-1996)
Son, Get a Haircut or Leave My School--Hair Length Restriction for Male Students Upheld by Texas Supreme Court in Barber v. Colorado Independent School District

handle is hein.journals/thurlr21 and id is 645 raw text is: SON, GET A HAIRCUT OR LEAVE MY SCHOOL? HAIR LENGTH RESTRICTION FOR MALE STUDENTS UPHELD BY TEXAS SUPREME COURT IN BARBER v. COLORADO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT HiGINiO GAMiz I. Introduction ........................................... 185 II. Synopsis Of The Case ................................. 188 III. History and Background ............................... 191 A. Does a student's hair length have constitutional 191 protection? ....................................... B. Ferrell v. Dallas Independent School District ...... 196 C. Karr v. Schmidt .................................. 198 D. Mercer v. Bd. of Trustees ......................... 200 VI. Analysis of Barber v. Colorado Independent School 202 D istrict ................................................ A. Standard of Review ............................... 202 B. Majority Opinion ................................. 202 C. Dissenting Opinion ................................ 205 V. Conclusion ............................................ 208 INTRODUCTION The Texas Supreme Court's decision supported the efforts of school authorities to enforce hair length regulations which may demand that a male student cut his hair or risk being suspended.2 Today, student challenges of hair length provisions are not as prevalent as in the past when a barrage of cases, perhaps encouraged by the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community Sch. Dist. ,3 claiming that such regulations deprived students of their I. Barber v. Colorado Indep. Sch. Dist., 901 S.W.2d 447 (Tex. 1995). 2. Id. 3. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969). The Court in Tinker held that students wearing black armbands in protest of the war in Vietnam was protected by the First Amendment. Id. at 505-06. See also Comment, Long Hair and the Law, 24 KAN. L. REV. 143 (1975), Recent Cases-Constitutional Law-School and School Districts, 84 HARv. L. Rav. 1702 (1971), and W.E. Shipley, Annotation, Validity Of Regulation By Public School Authorities As To Clothes Or Personal Appearance Of pupils, 14 A.L.R.3d 1201 (1967).

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