Legal Opinion
Pyle v. School Committee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 25, 1996PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Liacos, CJ.
The plaintiffs, Jeffrey and Jonathan Pyle, sued the school committee of South Hadley, the interim superintendent of schools of South Hadley, and the interim principal of South Hadley High School (school) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Federal District Court), claiming that the school’s dress code violates their freedom of expression as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and G. L. c. 71, § 82 (1994 ed.). A Federal District Court judge granted the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction against enforcement of that…
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