Court Shoots Down Media’s Constitutional Claim to Circumvent WIAA’s Exclusive Deal

A federal judge from the Western District of Wisconsin has ruled that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association did not violate the First and/or Fourteenth Amendment rights of media company Gannett Co., Inc. and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, Inc. when it sold an exclusive license to stream certain WIAA-sponsored tournament events over the Internet.   Among the reasons that the court found for the WIAA was that the events were not “public forums” and that the media was fr