United States Fifth Circuit

A school's uniform policy does not suppress student speech where students may wear what they like after school hours and express their views through other mediums during the school day, as long as there is no bar to the important "personal intercommunication among students" necessary to an effective educational process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2001
• Published 01/23/2001

Judges

• ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before DUHÉ and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and FOLSOM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert I. Thompson, III (argued), J. Ransdell Keene, Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Hammonds (argued), Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, Roland V. McKneeley, Jr., Bossier City, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.