Sykes v. Payton

OPINION AND ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit, brought under state law by the plaintiffs (Emilia Strong Sykes, Barbara Sykes, and Vernon Sykes) against the defendants (Tuskegee University and university administrators Benjamin F. Pay-ton, Peter Spears, and Minnie R. Austin) concerns the results of a university beauty pageant. Jurisdiction is invoked pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (diversity of citizenship).

This case is currently before the court on the defendants’ motion to dismiss. That motion will be granted in part and denied in part.

I. MOTION-TO-DISMISS STANDARD

In…