When classes start Wednesday, a Texas school district cannot enforce a hair-length policy that would have required two African American students to cut their long dreadlocks, or face punishment.

A pro bono team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld represented the plaintiffs, two high school students who wore locs to express their racial identities. The plaintiffs, K.B. and De’Andre Arnold, sued Barbers Hill High School over its policy that required male students keep their hair short. While that case winds through the judicial process, the school district was ordered in a preliminary injunction not to enforce its hair policy.

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