# Joe Richard Lansdale v. Tyler Junior College and Harry E. Jenkins

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · November 7, 1972 · 470 F.2d 659

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9458961

## Case

- **Full name:** Joe Richard LANSDALE Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE and Harry E. Jenkins, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** November 7, 1972
- **Citations:** 470 F.2d 659
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Bell
- **Judges:** Brown, Wisdom, Gewin, Bell, Thornberry, Coleman, Goldberg, Ainsworth, Godbold, Dyer, Simpson, Morgan, Clark, Ingraham, Roney
- **Cited by:** 52 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that at the college level, unlike the high school level, an adult's constitutional right to wear his hair as he chooses supersedes the state’s right to intrude by imposing an "appearance code” on would-be junior college students
- holding that at the college level such interests are not sufficient to warrant a similar intrusion on the liberty interests of college students

## Opinion text

BELL, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring) :
I concur in the result of this case and in the principle which it sets out that is applicable to hair style regulations at *665 the college level, a principle different from that applying below the college level. See Karr v. Schmidt, 5 Cir., 1972, 460 F.2d 609 (En banc). A legislative judgment of the kind involved here is inescapable for the court, given civil rights jurisdiction, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 , the inability to require exhaustion of state remedies, Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167 , 81 S.Ct. 473 , 5 L.Ed.2d 492 (1961), and the class action rule, Rule 23, F.R. Civ.Procedure.

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