CROCKER v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASS'N

No. 91-5615.

980 F.2d 382 (1992)

Michael Ray CROCKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION; Ronald Lee Carter, individually and as Executive Director of Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald A. Smith, Jr. (argued and briefed), Blackburn, Little, Smith & Slobey, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Charles Hampton White (briefed) and Richard L. Colbert (argued), Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; JONES and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff claims that the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association ("TSSAA") and Ronald Carter, its executive director, violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by interfering with the right of plaintiff as handicapped student to participate in interscholastic football as required under the Education of the Handicapped Act ("EHA"), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq. Chief Judge Nixon granted summary judgment...

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