New Jersey Judge Affirms School Board’s Suspension of Football Players from State Championship Game

A judge in the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has denied the petition of a group of student athletes, who had asked the OAL to lift a suspension issued by the school board, which prevented them from playing in the state championship football game.   In so ruling, the judge found that the nine seniors had not demonstrated that the law was settled in their favor or that there was a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim. The student athletes in the case were members