Communities for Equity v. Michigan High School Athletic Assn.
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5780 (W.D. Mich. 1999)
Female high school students (plaintiffs) sued the Michigan High School Athletic Association for Title IX gender discrimination, alleging it refused to sanction certain girls' sports, forced girls' teams into non-traditional seasons, and allocated disproportionately more resources to boys' athletics; Communities for Equity sought to certify a class of all present and future female students at member schools who participate in or are deterred from participating in interscholastic athletics because of the association's discriminatory conduct.
Whether a court should certify as a class a group of high school girls alleging gender discrimination against the high school athletic association in the administration of the high school's athletic program.