Appeals Court Sides with Female Basketball Players over Scheduling Controversy

The 7th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling, agreeing with a pair of female high school basketball players that several Indiana school districts may have violated Title IX when they scheduled the boys’ basketball games during the weekend.   The panel of judges, whose ruling cleared the way for a trial, also held that the school districts were not entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity from the plaintiffs’ equal protection claim.