Religious Schools Seek Fair Play on Sports
Religious Schools Seek Fair Play on Sports
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Four religious high schools sued the California agency in charge of high school sports, for its "discriminatory scheme" that boots them from leagues with secular schools and forces them to travel "excessive distances" to a parochial league.
The four schools filed three federal complaints, alleging constitutional violations, breach of contract and other charges.
The plaintiffs are Lucy's Priory school of Glendora; Oaks Christian School, of Westlake Village; and Saint Bonaventure High School, of Ventura, and Damien High School. They sued the California Interscholastic Federation of Sacramento and its commissioner and directors.
The nonprofit CIF operates under the state Education Code, with oversight from the Legislature. It governs all interscholastic sports and high school state championships, for public and private schools.
The plaintiff schools claim that they are being forced to leave athletic leagues in which they have competed for decades, while secular schools get to stay put. They claim this violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection, and the CIF's own rules.
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