Legal Opinion
Robert W. McCune v. Louis J. Frank, Commissioner of Police of the County of Nassau, and the Police Department of the County of Nassau
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 16, 1975No. 871, Docket 75-7027PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Robert McCune is a Nassau County Police Officer whose sideburns extend to the lower edge of his earlobe and then flare out to a width of at least an inch and a quarter. On July 5, 1974, he was served with departmental charges specifying that on or about 1200 hours on May 14, 1974, he violated Article VIII, Rule 22 of the Rules and Regulations of the Nassau County Police Department which, as amended by Teletype Order 114 of April 23, 1971, forbids officers of the Department from sporting sideburns that “extend to a point below % of an inch above the bottom of the…
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