Legal Opinion
National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Tarkanian
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 12, 1988No. 87-1061PublishedCited by 523 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
When he became head basketball coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), in 1973, Jerry Tarkanian inherited a team with a mediocre 14-14 record. App. 188, 205. Four years later the team won 29 out of 32 games and placed third in the championship tournament sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to which UNLV belongs. Id., at 188.
Yet in September 1977 UNLV informed Tarkanian that it was going to suspend him. No dissatisfaction with Tarkan*181ian, once described as “the ‘winningest’ active basketball soach,” id., at 19, motivated his suspension. Rather, the…
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