United States Sixth Circuit

A judgment in a dispute arising from a defendant's, a voluntary association of schools, imposition of penalties on plaintiff due to alleged violation of an athlete recruiting rule is reversed in part as to: 1) a finding for plaintiff on its substantive due process claim; 2) a finding that a defendant was not entitled to qualified immunity; and 3) a finding that defendant was entitled to antitrust immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/17/2006
• Published 03/17/2006

Judges

• Before:  GIBBONS and ROGERS, Circuit Judges;  BELL, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard L. Colbert, Colbert & Winstead, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  James F. Blumstein, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Richard L. Colbert, W. Gregory Miller, J. Christopher Anderson, Colbert & Winstead, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  James F. Blumstein, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, H. Lee Barfield II, W. Brantley Phillips, Jr., Bass, Barry & Sims, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.  Daniel Casse, White House Writers Group, Washington, D.C., Chester E. Finn, Jr., Thomas B. FordhamFoundation, Washington, D.C., John F. Daly, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., William E. Quirk, James M. Humphrey, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, Missouri, for Amici Curiae.