Force Ex Rel. Force v. Pierce City R-VI School District

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDERS

ROSS T. ROBERTS, District Judge.

Nichole Force, a thirteen year old female student enrolled in the eighth grade at the Pierce City, Missouri, Junior High School, seeks an injunction which would allow her to compete for a place on the school’s eighth grade football team. Her claims are relatively simple and straightforward: that de fendants’ refusal to accord her that opportunity is based—and based solely—upon the fact that she is a female rather than a male, and that a sex-based determination of that sort violates her right to the equal protection of the laws under…