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PYLE v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SOUTH HADLEY

423 Mass. 283 (1996)

JEFFREY J. PYLE & another v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF SOUTH HADLEY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Newman (John Reinstein with him) for the plaintiffs.

Harry L. Miles (Edward J. Ryan, III, with him) for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael C. Hiestand for Student Press Law Center.

Stephen J. Finnegan for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc.

Deborah S. Steenland, Assistant Attorney General, Rhoda E. Schneider & Virginia A. Greiman for Commissioner of Education & another.

Michael J. Long for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, Inc.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.

LIACOS, C. J.

The plaintiffs, Jeffrey and Jonathan Pyle, sued the school committee of South Hadley, the interim superintendent of schools of South Hadley, and the interim principal of South Hadley High School (school) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Federal District Court), claiming that the school's dress code violates their freedom of expression as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and G. L...

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