DENNIN v. CIAC

No. 1801, Docket 96-7065.

94 F.3d 96 (1996)

Joseph DENNIN, Nancy Dennin, as guardians and next friend of David Dennin, David Dennin and The Trumbull Board of Education, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The CONNECTICUT INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Buturla, Milford, Connecticut (Marsha Belman Moses, Berchem, Moses & Devlin, Milford Connecticut, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Richard D. O'Connor, Hartford, Connecticut (Dana Shaw MacKinnon, Siegel, O'Connor, Schiff & Zangari, Hartford Connecticut, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.

Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut (David M. Teed, Assistant Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut, on the brief), for Amicus State of Connecticut in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Mallory V. Mayse, Columbia, Missouri, filed a brief for Amicus Missouri State High School Activities Association in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Missouri (Maurice A. Watson, Shirley W. Keeler, Kansas City, Missouri, of counsel), filed a brief for Amicus National Federation of State High School Associations in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Cornelius & Collins, Nashville, Tennessee (Richard L. Colbert, Nashville, Tennessee, of counsel), filed a brief for Amici Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, et al., in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Before: KEARSE, MAHONEY, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendant The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, Inc. ("CIAC"), appeals from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Peter C. Dorsey, Chief Judge, ruling that CIAC's refusal in 1995 to waive its maximum-age rule with respect to plaintiff David Dennin ("David"), then a 19-year-old high school student with Down Syndrome, violated...

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