1969+Tinker+V.+Des+Moines

6. Tinker V. Des Moines (1969) ===John F. ** TINKER ** and Mary Beth ** Tinker **, minors, by their father and next friend, Leonard ** Tinker ** and Christopher Eckhardt, minor, by his father and next friend, William Eckhardt, Plaintiffs,===

The ** DES **** MOINES ** INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants.
 [|Civ. No. 7-1810-C-1.] September 1, 1966. Dan Johnston, ** Des **** Moines **, Ia., for plaintiffs. Allan A. Herrick and Philip C. Lovrien, ** Des **** Moines **, Ia., for defendants.
 * United States District Court S. D. Iowa, Central Division.**

MEMORANDUM OPINION
STEPHENSON, Chief Judge. The plaintiffs instituted this action against the ** Des **** Moines ** Independent Community School District, its Board of Directors and certain administrative officials and teachers thereof in an attempt to recover nominal damages and obtain an injunction pursuant to the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1343. The events giving rise to this controversy took place in December 1965. During the second week of that month, it came to the attention of certain school officials that several students intended to wear black arm bands for the purpose of expressing their beliefs relating to the war in Viet Nam. A regulation was then promulgated by officials of the defendant school district prohibiting the wearing of arm bands on school facilities. After the regulation had been established, the plaintiffs, John ** Tinker **, Mary Beth ** Tinker ** and Christopher Eckhardt, wore black arm bands to their respective schools.

What happened to John, Mary, and Christopher: Each student was suspended from school until they decided not the wear the arm bands anymore. Neither student returned to school until after new years.

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