# Morrison v. Hamilton County Board of Education

> Tennessee Supreme Court · May 7, 1973 · 494 S.W.2d 770

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9674368

## Case

- **Full name:** Jack MORRISON, Appellant, v. HAMILTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Appellee
- **Court:** Tennessee Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 7, 1973
- **Citations:** 494 S.W.2d 770; 58 A.L.R. 3d 1219; 1973 Tenn. LEXIS 413
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Humphreys
- **Judges:** Dyer, Chattin, Humphreys, Me-Canless, Wilson
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

HUMPHREYS, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in this case with reluctance. My concurrence is occasioned by the fact that courts ought not be used to fashion hair and beard styles acceptable to school administrators. My reluctance is due to my conviction that there is nothing inherently harmful in a beard such as would justify the action taken.
While Jack Morrison’s beard may, as suggested, provide an unjustified diversion to the class, it could well be that without his beard he would furnish an even more detrimental diversion of attention. Who knows ?

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