Cape v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a junior female student at Oak Ridge High School (ORHS), claims that the State of Tennessee has denied her the right to equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. She seeks relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). Plaintiff also alleges that she is entitled to relief under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.

The basis of plaintiff’s claim is that the rules for girls’ basketball, promulgated and…