McConnell v. Mercantile National Bank at Dallas

OPINION

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., Chief Judge.

This case requires this Court to determine once again 1 whether the defendant’s policy on grooming — specifically hair length — violated the plaintiff’s rights. I find that it did not.

The defendant Mercantile National Bank in January, 1970, hired Ronald F. McConnell, plaintiff, who was then but 19 years old, to work as a night shift “reconciler” in its data processing department. About nine months later, the bank fired 2 McConnell after he refused to cut his hair so as to conform to the bank’s grooming code for employees.

Because the bank’s code…