Legal Opinion
Perkins v. Londonderry Basketball Club
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 8, 1999No. 07-1066PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Stacey Perkins, suing by and through her mother and next friend, Terri Perkins, alleges that defendant-appellee Londonderry Basketball Club (LBC) violated the Fourteenth Amendment when it refused to allow her to play in a youth basketball tournament because of her gender. The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, discerning no state action, resolved the constitutional claim adversely to the appellant (albeit without reaching the merits) and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the appellant’s pendent state-law…
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