Smith v. Tarrant County College District

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

TERRY R. MEANS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Clayton Smith and John Schwertz Jr. are students at the Hurst, Texas, campus of defendant Tarrant County College District (“TCC”). Also named as a defendant is Erma Johnson Hadley, TCC’s interim chancellor. The controversy in this case arises from the desire of Smith and Schwertz to protest Texas law and TCC policy prohibiting students from carrying concealed weapons on campus by, inter alia, wearing empty handgun holsters on campus, including into classrooms. The desired…