NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSN v. YEO

No. 03-0753.

171 S.W.3d 863 (2005)

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, et al., Petitioners, v. Joscelin YEO, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 26, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Bradshaw, University of Texas at Austin, Legal Affairs, John F. Morehead, Asst Atty. Gen., Robert B. O'Keefe, Greg Abbott, Atty. Gen., Barry Ross McBee, Rafael Edward Cruz, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Thompson & Knight, Robert B. O'Keefe, Don Wayne Cruse Jr., Asst. Solicitor Gen., Edward D. Burbach, Austin, Kevin Scott Mullen, Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP, Dallas, Catherine Christine Cobb Worth, Austin, for University of Texas.

Jose E. De La Fuente, Mark Ryan Trachtenberg and Charles G. Orr, Haynes & Boone, LLP, Houston, W. Wade Porter, Allensworth & Porter, LLP, Austin, Linda J. Salfrank and Jonathan F. Duncan, Spencer Fane Britt & Browns, LLP, Kansas City, MO, for National Collegiate Athletic.

Diane M. Henson, Henson Law Firm, Karl Bayer, Law Office of Karl Bayer, Robert Green Hargrove, Austin, for respondent.

Warren W. Harris, Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP, Houston, Amicus Curiae for American Council on Education.


Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN and Justice JOHNSON joined.

Construing the Texas Constitution's guarantee of due course of law,1 we held twenty years ago in Spring Branch I.S.D. v. Stamos, like "the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions" construing other constitutional guarantees of due process...

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