Bruce v. South Carolina High School League

Lewis, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court restraining the enforcement of a rule of appellant, South Carolina High School League, under which the respondent students were declared ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at Blue Ridge High School, in Greeenville County, South Carolina. The material facts were stipulated.

Appellant, South Carolina High School League, is a voluntary organization comprised of all public high schools, including Blue Ridge High School, and some of the private schools, in South Carolina. It had 340 members at the beginning of the…