Kelley v. Johnson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1976-04-05

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Me. Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court. The District Court for the Eastern District of New York originally dismissed respondent’s complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against a regulation promulgated by petitioner limiting the length of a policeman’s hair. On respondent’s appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, that judgment was reversed, and on remand the Distric…

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