Legal Opinion
Lisa Martin v. International Olympic Committee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 16, 1984No. 84-5859PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Certain women runners and runners’ organizations (the women runners) appeal the denial by the district court of their motion for a preliminary mandatory injunction to require the organizers of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games to include 5.000 meter and 10,000 meter track events for women. The women runners claim that the failure to include these events constitutes gender-based discrimination that violates their equal protection rights under the fifth and fourteenth amendments and the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal.Civ.Code § 51 (West 1982) (the Act) 1 The district…
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