Robert L. Parish v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

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• promulgation and enforcement of rules of athletic eligibility by association, half of whose members are private institutions, constitutes state action
• preliminary injunction should not be granted without a clear demonstration that the movant will succeed on the merits and that irreparable injury is threatened.
• “[W]e have held that the privilege of participating in interscholastic athletics 63 must be deemed to fall . . . outside the protection of due process” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• under Price, “state action” and “under color of state law” are equivalent
• conclusory allegations no substitute for factual showing of actual discriminatory intent
• alleged injury to hoped-for careers in professional basketball

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).