Court Denies Student Athlete’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

A federal judge in the Central District of Illinois has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction, sought by a student athlete, who had claimed that a school district violated his right to due process when it suspended him from interscholastic sports for a full year.   In so ruling, the court re-affirmed the off-held legal standard that participation in interscholastic sports is a privilege, not a constitutionally protected right.   A.C., whom the court only identified by his initia