Athletic Association Given Wide Latitude to Make Rules

A New York State Appellate Court has affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a section within the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Inc. did not act in an arbitrary and capricious manner when it adopted classification play to govern regular season football games among its member schools.   The Suburban Scholastic Council, which is a league of member schools and a subset of Section II of the NYSPHSAA, sued Section II shortly after classification play was adopted. Such pl