Rajinder Singh Cheema v. Harold H. Thompson

36 F.3d 1102 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Rajinder Singh CHEEMA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Harold H. THOMPSON, et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 94-16097. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 11, 1994. Decided Sept. 2 1994. Before: FLETCHER, HALL and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 This appeal comes to us from the denial of a preliminary injunction. The Appellants seek to require the appellees to allow appellants' children to attend school until the underlying litigation is decided. The children have not attended school since January of 1994. The new school term is about to commence. 3 Rajinder, Sukhjinder, and Jaspreet Cheema are baptized Khalsa Sikhs who wore to school ceremonial knives ("kirpans"), as required by a central tenet of their religion. The Livingston Union School District forbade them to do so pursuant to its policy prohibiting the possession of knives on school property, and has not…