Legal Opinion
Rappaport v. Little League Baseball, Inc.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided January 8, 1975No. Civ. A. No. 74-46PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LATCHUM, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs, young girls and their parents, filed suit on March 13, 1974 against the defendants, Little League Baseball, Inc. (“League”) and selected local charter members of the League, seeking to have the defendants’ policy of excluding girls from Little League baseball teams declared unconstitutional. The plaintiffs further sought to enjoin the League from revoking the charters of the local members for including female participants in their individual programs and in addition sought a mandatory injunction commanding the defendants to permit girls to play on the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Griffin v. BreckenridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. W. T. Grant Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Golden v. ZwicklerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Jimmy L. Smith v. William F. Winter, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
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