English v. NCAA
Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit
439 So.2d 1218 (1983)
Jon English (plaintiff) transferred from Michigan State to Iowa State (both four-year colleges), then to a junior college, and finally sought immediate eligibility at Tulane, where his father coached football; the NCAA (defendant) ruled him ineligible under a rule requiring a full year to elapse since transferring from his "first" four-year college, which the NCAA read as Michigan State, while English argued Iowa State should count as his "first" four-year college for purposes of the year already having elapsed since that transfer. The trial court ruled for the NCAA.
Whether the NCAA eligibility rule requiring student-athletes to let a full year elapse after transferring from their first four-year college to a second four-year college is arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory.