CROCKER v. TENN. SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASS'N

Nos. 88-6063, 88-6185.

873 F.2d 933 (1989)

Ray CROCKER; Susan Crocker, as legal guardians and next friends of Michael Crocker, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, Defendant-Appellant, (88-6063) Charles Smith, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education; Metro Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee, Defendants-Appellants. (88-6185)

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David T. Hooper, W. Gary Blackburn (argued), Alagia, Day, Marshall, Mintmire & Chauvin, Nashville, Tenn., for Ray Crocker, et al.

Charles Hampton White (argued), Richard L. Colbert, Cornelius & Collins, W. Gregory Miller, Nashville, Tenn., for Tennessee Secondary School.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., Jane W. Young, Myra L. Sanderson (argued), Asst. Attys. Gen., Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., Nashville, for Charles Smith, Commissioner of the Tennessee Dept. of Educ. and Metro Nashville-Davidson County, Tenn.

William M. Safley (argued), Susan Short Jones, Director of Law, Nashville, Tenn., for Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County.

Before MERRITT, MARTIN and JONES, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated cases arise under the Education of the Handicapped Act, 20 U.S. C. § 1415(e). Susan and Ray Crocker, as legal guardians of their son Michael Crocker, sued in District Court seeking to enjoin the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, the Tennessee Department of Education and Metro Nashville-Davidson County, from applying to Michael Crocker the TSSAA transfer rule. That rule bars a secondary school student in...

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