Littlefield v. New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n

The issue raised by this interlocutory transfer is whether the trial court’s issuance of a temporary injunction against enforcement of defendant’s age limitation rule prohibiting plaintiff from playing on the Pembroke Academy basketball team was a proper exercise of discretion.

The plaintiff is a senior at Pembroke Academy who became twenty years old on January 15, 1977. The rules of the defendant provide that a “pupil may compete in interscholastic athletics during that school year if his 19th birthday is on or after September 1.” Plaintiff therefore was not eligible to compete during this…