Court Concludes Athletic Conference Is a State Agency

Mar 27, 2004

Athletic conferences can be viewed as state agencies for jurisdictional purposes where the conference members are state universities or colleges that pay dues “to finance” the business of the conference, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled.   The origin of the legal dispute was a post-game fight that occurred November 9, 2002 after a football game between Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and Slippery Rock University (SRU) in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.   The P
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