Court Rules IHSAA Must Pay Attorneys’ Fees in Eligibility Spat from 1991

An Indiana state appeals court has affirmed a ruling of a trial court that the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) should pay the attorney’s fees of the family of a man, who contested an eligibility ruling more than 20 years ago when he was a student athlete.   In so ruling, the panel wrote that “a trial court may award attorney's fees when a party continues to litigate the case after the party’s claims have become frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless. Here, the trial c