Court Sides with NCAA on Discovery Motion in Long-Running Eligibility Suit

A district judge has denied a plaintiff’s motion to compel in a case involving a parent’s attempt to force the NCAA to continue to broaden its acceptance of learning-disabled student athletes.   A decade ago, Kathleen Bowers sued the NCAA and two of its member schools, Temple University and the University of Iowa, for discrimination after her son, Michael, was allegedly denied an opportunity to compete in college athletics because of a learning disability. Specifically, she alleged that