Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Colorado
Earrings in School
Is it legal for a school to restrict the wearing of earrings by guys and not by girls.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Earrings in School
You may have a gender-based discrimination claim. There have been, as you can imagine, numerous similar suits addressing disparate rules regulating haircuts, clothes, etc. I am not aware of any seminal case addressing jewelry or earings, however. It is a very interesting issue.
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Re: Earrings in School
You might have a claim for discrimination based on gender.
That certainly would be the case in Illinois and probably in most other
states.