GALVESTON, Texas — A Texas federal court tossed the race discrimination, but not sex discrimination, claims brought by a Black high school student against his school district, which placed him in suspension over the length of his dreadlocks. The district could not provide a reason for sex-based distinctions between hairstyles in its dress code. The state governor and attorney general are dismissed entirely from the suit, however.
Read the ruling here.
Read prior coverage of this suit here.
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