Hamilton v. Tenn. Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n, 76-1067.
Decision Date | 08 April 1976 |
Docket Number | No. 76-1067.,76-1067. |
Parties | Victor HAMILTON, by his next friend, Virgil Hamilton, Jr., Intervenor-Appellee, v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, Defendant-Appellant. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
Charles Hampton White, Cornelius, Collins, Higgins & White, Nashville, Tenn., for defendant-appellant.
Thomas M. Daniel, Memphis & Shelby County Legal Services Ass'n, Memphis, Tenn., for intervenor-appellee.
Before PECK, LIVELY and ENGEL, Circuit Judges.
This is an appeal by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) from an order of the district court granting a preliminary injunction enjoining TSSAA from prohibiting the appellee Victor Hamilton from participating in interscholastic athletics on behalf of Memphis Frayser High School. 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a). The appellee does not contend that the eligibility rules of TSSAA are invalid. He argues in this court, as he did successfully in the district court, that he was entitled to reasonable notice and a hearing on the issue of whether he had lost his athletic eligibility by transferring from one school in the Memphis school district to another school in the same district in the absence of a change of residence by his parents.
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