Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n

Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 11, 2000 Decided February 20, 2001
Full case name	Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, et al.
Citations	531 U.S. 288 (more) 121 S. Ct. 924; 148 L. Ed. 2d 807; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 964
Case history
Prior	13 F. Supp. 2d 670 (M.D. Tenn. 1998); reversed, 180 F.3d 758 (6th Cir. 1999); rehearing en banc denied, 190 F.3d 705 (6th Cir. 1999).
Subsequent	On remand, 262 F.3d 543 (6th Cir. 2001); 304 F. Supp. 2d 981 (M.D. Tenn. 2003); reversed, Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy, 551 U.S. 291 (2007).
Holding
A statewide association, incorporated to regulate interscholastic athletic competition among public and private schools, is regarded as engaging in state action when it enforces a rule against a member school.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Souter, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV, 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, 531 U.S. 288 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning whether the actions of an interscholastic sport-association that regulated sports among Tennessee schools could be regarded as a state actor for First Amendment and Due Process purposes.^[1] The Court held that the sport-association can be sued as a state actor because its actions and history have been "entangled" with state action.^[2] While the Supreme Court would reconsider this same case in the future, this specific decision became important in articulating a new principle of what entities are bound by the First Amendment.