Chesley Karr v. Clifford Schmidt

Mr. Justice Black, Circuit Justice.

This “Emergency Motion to Vacate Stay of Injunction Pending Appeal” has been presented to me as the Supreme Court Justice assigned to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The motion concerns rules adopted by the school authorities of El Paso, Texas, providing that schoolboys’ hair must not “hang over the ears or the top of the collar of a standard dress shirt and must not obstruct vision.” The rules also provide that boys will not be admitted to or allowed to remain in school unless their hair meets this standard. The United States District Court for…