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JONES v. OKLAHOMA SECONDARY SCH. ACTIVITIES ASS'N

No. CIV-77-0477-T.

453 F.Supp. 150 (1977)

Cheryl Lynn JONES, by and through Paula Kay Jones, her mother and next friend, Plaintiff, v. OKLAHOMA SECONDARY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION (OSSAA), et al., Defendants, and Brenda Benson, by and through Donald L. Benson, her father and next friend, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, W. D. Oklahoma.

August 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Fellers and K. Nicholas Wilson, Fellers, Snider, Blankenship & Bailey, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants OSSAA, White, Agee, Eubanks, McDonnald, LaGrone, Garner, Muse, Robberson, Roberts, Hull.

Eric J. Groves, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants Oklahoma City Public Schools, Independent School District # 89 of Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma, Potts, Start, Hill, English, Williams, Brown, Donwurth, Smith, Francis.

C. D. Curtis, Curtis & McCue, Fairview, Okl., Donald L. Benson, Morford, Benson & Gruber, Alva, Okl., William R. Burkett and William P. Warden, Linn, Helms, Kirk & Burkett, Oklahoma City, Okl., for intervenors Benson, Curtis & Clements.

Sylvia Marks-Barnett of American Civil Liberties Union of Okla., Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RALPH G. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Complaint

Plaintiff, Cheryl Lynn Jones, is a junior student at Northeast High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she plays the position of guard on the girls' basketball team. The crux of plaintiff's complaint is Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) rules concerning basketball. The girls' game is substantially different from the boys' game in Oklahoma; those differences...

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