Legal Opinion

Barber v. Colorado Independent School District

Texas Supreme Court

Decided June 22, 1995No. 94-0054Published

1Opinion of the Court 1

901 S.W.2d 447 (1995)

Austin David BARBER et al., Petitioners,

v.

COLORADO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Respondent.

No. 94-0054.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Argued November 16, 1994.

Decided June 22, 1995.

Pat Barber, Colorado City, James C. Harrington, Austin, for petitioners.

T.L. Rees, C. Michael Ratliff, Colorado City, for respondent.

2Opinion of the Court · GonzalezGonzalez, Justice

This is a class action challenging the legality under the state constitution of hair length and earrings restrictions imposed by Colorado Independent School District (CISD) upon its male high school students. The trial court held that CISD's grooming code violated the…

Also in this document: Dissent · Gammage; Dissent · Spector.

3Cases cited28 opinions

  1. New Jersey v. T. L. O.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Prince v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
  3. Shelton v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  4. McKeiver v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  5. Ginsberg v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968

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