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THOMAS v. PEARL

No. 92-2709.

998 F.2d 447 (1993)

Deon L. THOMAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bruce PEARL, individually and in his representative capacity as Assistant Basketball Coach of the University of Iowa, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 1, 1993.

Rehearing Denied July 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Kelso, J. Steven Beckett (argued), Carol A. Dison, Beckett & Crewell, Urbana, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

John M. Parmeter (argued), Bonnie J. Campbell, Gordon E. Allen, Iowa Atty. General's Office, Des Moines, IA, for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Six-foot-nine-inch All-American Deon Thomas was the kind of high school basketball prospect who could make college coaches salivate — or worse. The University of Illinois was so eager to see Thomas wearing a Fighting Illini jersey that an assistant coach allegedly offered the high school student $80,000 and a Chevrolet, and promised to move his grandmother into a new apartment, if he would agree to accept the school's offer of a full...

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