Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic helped a client settle a religious discrimination case with a Philadelphia school district over a grooming policy.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the School District of Philadelphia on Monday reached a settlement to a lawsuit alleging that the school districts policy prohibiting police officers from having beards beyond a certain length violated the Civil Rights Act.

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the School District of Philadelphia on Monday reached a settlement to a lawsuit alleging that the school districts policy prohibiting police officers from having beards beyond a certain length violated the Civil Rights Act. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Strawbridge signed off on the settlement, under which the school district agreed to develop a policy that will allow officers to request religious exemptions to grow beards longer than one-quarter inch….