United States Sixth Circuit

The athletic association's "recruiting rule," which prohibits member schools from exerting undue influence to secure or retain a student for athletic purposes, does not violate the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/19/2001
• Decided 08/23/2001
• Published 08/23/2001

Judges

• Before: GUY, SUHRHEINRICH, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Kitchin, Kansas City, MO, Edmund J. Sikorski, Jr., Ann Arbor, MI, Steven L. Craig, Herbruck, Heichel & McFarren, Canton, OH, Mallory V. Mayse, Colombus, OH, Danny C. Reeves, Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, Lexington, KY, Leonard E. Ireland, Jr., Clayton, Johnston, Quincey, Ireland, Felder, Gadd, Roundtree, Gainesville, FL, Terrence E. Kiwala, Rooks, Pitts & Poust, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• H. Lee Barfield, II (briefed), Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, TN, Bobby Lee Cook, Cook & Connelly, Summerville, GA, James F. Blumstein (argued and briefed), Vanderbilt Univ. Law School, Nashville, TN, G. Thomas Nebel (briefed), Nashville, TN, William Scott Sims, Walker, Bryant & Tipps, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Charles Hampton White, Cornelius & Collins, Nashville, TN, Richard L. Colbert (argued and briefed), Colbert & Winstead, Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellants.