Legal Opinion
Lusk v. McDonough
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided October 7, 1974No. CIV-4-74-13PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
NEESE, District Judge.
The plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Lusk applied to this Court for an order to temporarily restrain the defendant, the judge of the Court of General Sessions of Warren County, Tennessee, from violating their civil rights. Inter alia, they claim under oath that Judge McDonough refuses to entertain Mrs. Lusk’s appearance in the court over which he presides to answer a traffic citation while she is dressed in slacks.
Among the rights retained by the people under our constitutional form of government is the freedom to govern one’s personal appearance…
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