Ashley v. City of Macon, Georgia

Full title: TROY SHELTON ASHLEY, DONALD MARVIN JOHNS, VELMAR LEROY SMITH, AND G. E…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Date published: Jan 2, 1975

505 F.2d 868 (5th Cir. 1975)

Opinion

No. 74-1602.

January 2, 1975.

Charles Marchman, Jr., Macon, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Lawton Miller, Jr., Lawton Miller, Sr., Macon, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and COLEMAN and DYER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants attack as unconstitutional the regulations of the City of Macon, Georgia, Police Department limiting the length of hair of male police officers and prohibiting long side burns, moustaches and beards. The district court, relying on Stradley v. Andersen, 8 Cir. 1973, 478 F.2d 188, upheld the regulations. We agree with the rationale of Stradley and affirm. See Yarbrough v. City of Jacksonville, M.D. Fla., 1973, 363 F. Supp. 1176, aff'd per curiam without opinion, 5 Cir. 1974, 504 F.2d 759.

Affirmed.