question archive Pat Sullivan was a standout football running back who rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a sophomore for Cold Spring High School in Massachusetts

Pat Sullivan was a standout football running back who rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a sophomore for Cold Spring High School in Massachusetts

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Pat Sullivan was a standout football running back who rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a sophomore for Cold Spring High School in Massachusetts. Pat was also a fine pitcher, with a 90 mile-per-hour fastball. Big-time baseball programs such as the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, and Florida as well as Notre Dame offered him baseball scholarships, but he remained undecided about which university to attend.
After his sophomore year, Pat decided to enroll in a private high school in Connecticut to improve his grades through smaller classes while moving to a higher level of athletic competition. He transferred to a well-known athletic powerhouse prep school, the Revlon Acres School (RAS) about 100 miles from his home in Cold Spring. His junior year at RAS went well. As the starting running back for the varsity football team, he rushed for 1,150 yards and led the team in scoring. He also had a great varsity baseball season and was the top pitcher for RAS. Pat did well in school and lifted his GPA to 3.2 for his junior year. However, Pat became homesick and a year away from his family and friends proved to be hard on him. Due to his longing to be back home, Pat, with the permission of his parents, withdrew from RAS, moved back home, and re-enrolled at Cold Spring High for his senior year. Now, with the study skills he learned at RAS, he is confident that he will do well academically in his upcoming senior year. Thus, he feels his decision to go away for the year was well worth the costs.
The Cold Spring athletic director and head baseball coach, Craig Adopolos, is understandably thrilled that Pat has decided to move back and play football and baseball for his hometown school. However, his happiness abruptly ended when the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) sent Adopolos a letter informing him of MIAA Rule 57, which stated in relevant part:

A student who transfers from any school to an MIAA member high school is ineligible to participate in any interscholastic athletic contest at any level for a period of one year in all sports in which that student participated at the varsity level or its equivalent during the one year period immediately preceding the transfer.
The letter to Adopolos stated that it was the MIAA Board of Commissioners' decision, which was reached without notice and a hearing to Pat or to Cold Spring High School, that Rule 57 prohibited Pat from competing in football and baseball for one year. MIAA rules also state that parties with an interest in the outcome should be given due process in hearings before the MIAA.
Pat, with the support of Cold Spring High School, appealed to the MIAA. Pat argued that the only reason he moved back home was homesickness; he was not recruited back to Cold Spring High School. The MIAA denied the appeal and ruled Pat ineligible for his senior year. To compound matters, every college that offered him a baseball scholarship has now withdrawn that offer.

Pat is considering appealing the MIAA's decision to state court. Should he seek an injunction? Why or why not?
which party will likely prevail and why?

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