ENGLISH v. NAT. COLLEGIATE ATH. ASS'N

Nos. C 1409, CA 1417.

439 So.2d 1218 (1983)

Jon ENGLISH v. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION and Tulane University of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied October 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson Tucker, Jr., Tucker & Schoenekas, Jerald N. Andry and Gilbert V. Andry, III, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul Verkuil, Ronald Mason, Jr., Harry McCall, Jr., Wiley G. Lastrapes, Jr., Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Wayne J. Lee, Sarah S. Vance, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before SCHOTT, BARRY and KLEES, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

In these injunction proceedings plaintiff, Jon English, seeks to prevent defendants, Tulane University and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), from declaring him ineligible to play football for Tulane on the basis of the NCAA rule regarding transfers by student athletes between schools. Upon filing his petition on September 2, 1983, plaintiff obtained a restraining order from the trial court which enabled him to play in Tulane's first...

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