Kite v. Marshall
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
661 F.2d 1027 (1981)
- Written by Emily Laird, JD
Facts
The parents of student-athletes (plaintiffs) sued representatives of the state high school athletic association (the state athletic association) (defendants) in federal court over the association’s rule that suspended student-athletes for one year of varsity athletics if the students attended certain expensive summer training camps. The parents alleged that the rule violated the Fourth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. The athletic association argued that its rule had a rational basis and was aimed at achieving a balance in interscholastic athletics between students who could afford summer sports camps and those who could not. The athletic association also argued that its rule had the legitimate purpose of helping control overzealous coaches and parents and deterring the use of summer sports camps as recruiting mechanisms for school athletic programs. The parents argued instead that the rule unconstitutionally deprived their children of their fundamental rights to participate in summer athletic camps and deprived the parents of the right to decide to send their children to sports camps. The district court found in favor of the parents and declared the rule unconstitutional. The state athletic association appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Politz, J.)
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