Hoover v. Meiklejohn
United States District Court for the District of Colorado
430 F.Supp. 164 (1977)
Relevant factsFree
Sixteen-year-old Donna Hoover (plaintiff) was barred from her public high school's junior varsity soccer team under a Colorado High School Activities Association (defendant) rule limiting soccer to males only, based on the Association's medical committee's advice that mixed-gender soccer posed greater injury risk to girls; other sports like baseball and cross country carried no such gender limitation. Hoover brought a class action seeking an injunction against enforcement of the soccer rule.
IssueFree
Whether the complete denial of any opportunity for females to play interscholastic soccer violates equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.