NCAA Gets Partial Victory in Bowers Case

A federal judge has administered a partial victory to the NCAA, the lone remaining defendant in a case in which a mother sued on behalf of her learning-disabled son, claiming that the association and other defendants discriminated against him by not awarding him an athletic scholarship because of his disability   Among the arguments examined by the court in the instant opinion were a series of in limine motions, including: (1) the NCAA's motion to exclude evidence of the 1998 Consent Decree