Athletic Ass'n, 396 F.2d at 225-226. We have never found state action based upon mere "entwinement." App. Respondent is therefore publicly controlled. The Court held that the change in trustees did not automatically eliminate Fourteenth Amendment constraints. There is no indication that the TSSAA invited this resolution or that the resolution in any way altered the actions of the TSSAA or the State following its adoption in 1972. Id., at 193, n. 13. The question whether an athletic association is covered by Title VI and Title IX when a recipient cedes to it controlling authority is distinct from the question presented here-whether the actions of an athletic association constitute state action when the association is controlled by representatives of public schools located in the same State. Brentwood Academy is a member of Defendant TSSAA, and the school's interscholastic athletic teams regularly participate in athletic contests regulated by the TSSAA. The Association places great stress, for example, on the application of a public function test, as exemplified in Rendell-Baker v. Kohn, 457 U. S. 830 (1982). The State Board of Education (State Board) has long acknowledged the Association's role in regulating interscholastic competition in public schools, and its members sit as nonvoting members of the Association's governing bodies. Activities Ass'n, 682 F.2d 147, 151 (8th Cir. The state-action doctrine also promotes important values of federalism, "avoid [ing] the imposition of responsibility on a State for conduct it could not control." 89, 92. Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, 13 & n.12 (1948). The court first concluded that respondent is not an "arm of the government" because no Tennessee law or State Board regulation currently in effect delegates to respondent the authority to conduct interscholastic athletics on behalf of the State. Each member school that is represented by a principal or other school official at the annual election is entitled to one vote. Association staff, although not state employees, may join the state retirement system. App. Therefore, Coach Flatt had violated the recruiting rule that prohibits undue influence . At the time that sanctions were imposed against petitioner, the Legislative Council and Board of Control were composed exclusively of public school officials. 312 BRENTWOOD ACADEMY v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSN. Because the majority never defines "entwinement," the scope of its holding is unclear. SOUTER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which STEVENS, O'CONNOR, GINSBURG, and BREYER, JJ., joined. scholastic Athletic League, 572 F.2d 121, 125 (CA3 1978) (state action conceded). Ante, at 299. But on the other side, the NCAA's policies were shaped not by the University of Nevada alone, but by several hundred member institutions, most of them having no connection with Nevada, and exhibiting no color of Nevada law. Argued October 11, 2000-Decided February 20, 2001 Respondent not-for-profit athletic association (Association) regulates interscholastic sport among Tennessee public and private high schools. Online Edition 2002 ~ 2018, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. 1973) (precluding girls from participating in certain sports); Hoover v. Meiklejohn, 430 F. Supp. Respondent Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (Association) is a not-for-profit membership corporation organized to regulate interscholastic sport among the public and private high schools in Tennessee that belong to it. SETH P. WAXMAN Solicitor General BILL LANN LEE Acting Assistant Attorney General BARBARA D. UNDERWOOD Deputy Solicitor General IRVING L. GORNSTEIN Assistant to the Solicitor General DENNIS J. DIMSEY GREGORY B. FRIEL Attorneys MAY 2000 1 Evans and Lebron specifically referred to the public objectives served by the entity. The following information is provided for citations. Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary Sch. Thus, by giving these jobs to the Association, the 290 public schools of Tennessee belonging to it can sensibly be seen as exercising their own authority to meet their own responsibilities. Synopsis of Rule of Law. The state-action doctrine does not convert opponents into virtual agents. App. [15] He concluded by stating that the Court should have affirmed the Sixth Circuit's opinion. 290 BRENTWOOD ACADEMY v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSN. The Legislative Council has authority to enact regulations; the Board of Control has authority to enforce them. 3 McVarish v. Mid-Nebraska Community Mental Health Ctr., 696 F.2d 69, 71 (8th Cir. In reaching that conclusion, the court relied in part on the State Board's 1972 regulation designating respondent as the entity responsible for interscholastic athletics in Tennessee. Pennsylvania v. Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia, supra, held the privately endowed Girard College to be a state actor and enforcement of its private founder's limitation of admission. The State Board of Education authorizes the public schools of the state to voluntarily maintain membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. As mentioned, the terms of the State Board's Rule expressly designating the Association as regulator of interscholastic athletics in public schools were deleted in 1996, the year after a Federal District Court held that the Association was a state actor because its rules were "caused, directed and controlled by the Tennessee Board of Education," Graham v. TSSAA, No. Ibid. Co. v. Sullivan, 526 U.S. 40 (1999); Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U.S. 42 (1992); Polk County v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312 (1981), and it has a substantial interest in the state action question presented here. The court noted that "the overwhelming majority" of respondent's members are public schools, and that in 1997, "all members of the Board of Control and Legislative Council were principals of public schools." The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (Association) is a not-for-profit membership corporation organized to regulate interscholastic sports among its members, a large portion of the public and private high schools in . v. Tarkanian, 488 U. S. 179 (1988), as foreshadowing this case, ante, at 297-298, also does not support its conclusion. Held. Thus, under established state action principles, if a public school or its principal were to adopt a rule governing participation in interscholastic athletic competition, that rule would be subject to challenge under the Fourteenth Amendment. Tenn. Code Ann. 373, 20 U. S. C. 16811688. The State treated respondent as its agent for that purpose, closely monitoring respondent's activities and repeatedly approving the association's regulations, including the recruiting rule challenged by petitioner. Nor is that issue presented in this case. The United States also has authority to bring criminal prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. at 61B. Located just south of Nashville, Brentwood Academy, the plaintiff, is a small private school with a well-respected reputation for winning on the football field. Respondent's regulation of interscholastic competition therefore constitutes state action, and nothing in Blum, Rendell-Baker, or San Fransciso Arts suggests otherwise. 2 See Griffin High School v. Illinois High Sch. Here, since 84% of the membership is made up of public school, which are not private actors, and each school is required to send an administrator of its school, and the governing body is made up of those individuals acting within their official capacity as state employees, there is no recognizable Associationwithout the public school officials. To be sure, it is not the strict holding in Tarkanian that points to our view of this case, for we found no state action on the part of the NCAA. Save for the Sixth Circuit, every Court of Appeals to consider a statewide athletic association like the one here has found it a state actor. The Association's fear that reversing the judgment will trigger an epidemic of federal litigation is unfounded. Similarly, except in unusual circumstances, a public employee engages in state action "while acting in his official capacity or while exercising his responsibilities pursuant to state law." 2d 670 (MD Tenn. 1998). Each school, for. Representatives of the State Board and the State Department of Education serve as ex officio members on respondent's Board of Control and Legislative Council. The court held that respondent's actions are not fairly attributable to the State under the "public function test" because the regulation of interscholastic sports is not a power "traditionally exclusively reserved to the state." 06-427. It was true that various public school districts had adopted the practice of referring students to the school and paying their tuition, and no one disputed that providing the instruction aimed at a proper public objective and conferred a public benefit. The three main tests for state action are that an organization has performed a public function, has been created, coerced, or encouraged by the state, or has acted in a symbiotic relationship with the state. The decision in this case could affect that interest. Although the majority asserts that there are three examples of entwinement analysis in our cases, there is no case in which we have rested a finding of state action on entwinement alone. at 9A. (b) The necessarily fact-bound inquiry leads to the conclusion of state action here. The Association argues that application of the public function criterion would produce the same result here, and we will assume, arguendo, that it would. Cf. at 17A. - Amicus (Merits) Docket number: No. 23B. at 33B. App. Id. Certainly, in Tennessee, the State did not even show an interest in interscholastic athletics until 47 years after the TSSAA had been in existence and had been orchestrating athletic contests throughout the State. This means that its actions can be considered state action, and constitutional protections apply. Pet. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT [February 20, 2001] Justice Souter delivered the opinion of the Court. I respectfully dissent. Ins. Yes. Id. 23B. providing standards, rules and regulations for interscholastic competition in the public schools of Tennessee.' Just as we foresaw in Tark ani an, the "necessarily factbound inquiry," Lugar, 457 U. S., at 939, leads to the conclusion of state action here. Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, 513 U. S. 374 (1995), held that Amtrak was the Government for constitutional purposes, regardless of its congressional designation as private; it was organized under federal law to attain governmental objectives and was directed and controlled by federal appointees. But if the majority's new entwinement test develops in future years, it could affect many organizations that foster activities, enforce rules, and sponsor extracurricular competition among high schools-not just in athletics, but in such diverse areas as agriculture, mathematics, music, marching bands, forensics, and cheerleading. Id., at 193, 196. Tennessee State Board of Education, Administrative Rules and Regulations, Rule 0520-1-2-.26 (1972) (later moved to Rule 0520-1-2-.08). Public Schools And Their Officials Are State Actors The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, "by its very terms, prohibits only state action." App. Finally, in Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corp., 513 U.S. 374 (1995), the Court held that an operator of passenger trains commonly known as Amtrak is a government actor for constitutional purposes, despite Congress's designation of it as a private corporation. The State Board allows interscholastic athletics to be substituted for the physical education graduation requirement, thus enabling students to earn academic credit for participating in activities sponsored by respondent. The court denied a petition for rehearing en banc. App. Regardless of these various tests for state action, common sense dictates that the TSSAA's actions cannot fairly be attributed to the State, and thus cannot constitute state action. 1 A number of other courts have held statewide athletic associations to be state actors. Id. Brentwood Academy, a private school, was a voluntary member of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA). 2000d, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1997); Mississippi High School Activities Assn., Inc. v. Coleman, 631 So. Not all rules imposed by an athletic association, however, are enforced by individual public schools. "); United States ex rel. In applying these tests. In general, conduct constitutes state action and action under color of law if (1) the alleged constitutional deprivation is "caused by the exercise of some right or privilege created by the State or by a rule of conduct imposed by the State or by a person for whom the State is responsible," and (2) "the party charged with the deprivation [is] a person who may fairly be said to be a state actor." Argued April 18, 2007Decided June 21, 2007 Petitioner association (TSSAA) regulates interscholastic sports among its members, Tennessee public and private high schools. as regulator; it substituted a statement "recogniz[ing] the value of participation in interscholastic athletics and the role of [the Association] in coordinating interscholastic athletic competition," while "authoriz[ing] the public schools of the state to voluntarily maintain membership in [the Association]." The city, we determined, was "engaged in an elaborate subterfuge" to circumvent a court order desegregating the city's recreational facilities. 382 U. S., at 301-302. To the contrary, the Court expressly reaffirmed the holding in City Trusts that Girard College was a state actor, even though it was created pursuant to a private trust, rather than a special law. 1973) (foundation); Chiaffitelli v. Dettmer Hosp., Inc., 437 F.2d 429, 430 (6th Cir. Even then, the State Board of Education merely acquiesced in the TSSAA's actions and did not assume the role of regulating interscholastic athletics. Allegations that high school athletic associations discriminate against female athletes persist today. Thus, the entities involved in City Trusts, Evans, and Lebron shared two important characteristics. Treating athletic associations as state actors when public schools constitute a voting majority also accords with the purposes of the state action requirement. The judicial obligation is not only to "'preserv[e] an area of individual freedom by limiting the reach of federal law' and avoi[d] the imposition of responsibility on a State for conduct it could not control," Tarkanian, supra, at 191 (quoting Lugar, supra, at 936-937), but also to assure that constitutional standards are invoked "when it can be said that the State is responsible for the specific conduct of which the plaintiff complains," Blum, supra, at 1004 (emphasis in original). Most of the State's public high schools are members, representing 84% of the Association's membership. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT BRIEF FOR THE UNITED STATES AS AMICUS CURIAE SUPPORTING PETITIONER INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES The question presented in this case is whether an athletic association's regulation of interscholastic athletic competition qualifies as state action under the Fourteenth Amendment and as activity under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is a not-for-profit membership corporation organized to regulate interscholastic sport among private and public high school in Tennessee. 924, 148 L.Ed.2d 807 (2001). JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. 300 BRENTWOOD ACADEMY v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSN. Like the state-action requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the state-action element of 42 U. S. C. 1983 excludes from its coverage "merely private conduct, however. Brentwood Academy, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association; Ronnie Carter, Executive Director and Individually, Defendants-appellants, 262 F.3d 543 (6th Cir. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 U. S. 345, 352 (1974). Richard L. Colbert argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents. Public schools constitute approximately 84% of respondent's voting members, and during the relevant period, respondent's governing bodies were composed exclusively of public school officials. See Blum, supra, at 1011; Rendell-Baker, supra, at 840; see also Moose Lodge No. 4 The significance of winks and nods in state-action doctrine seems to be one of the points of the dissenters' departure from the rest of the Court. 17A), Tarkanian suggests that a single-State athletic association may be engaged in state action when it regulates a public school, but not when it regulates a private school. Athletic Assoc. With the exception of the court below, the courts of appeals have uniformly held that athletic associations composed primarily of public schools are state actors.2 The courts of appeals have also held in other contexts that entities are state actors when their governing bodies consist primarily of state officials or persons appointed by state officials.3 In contrast, the courts have refused to find state action when government appointees and public officials constitute less than a majority on an entity's governing body and government control is not otherwise established.4 That approach correctly implements the state action requirement. at 11B, 24B-26B. With him on the briefs were H. Lee Barfield II and G. Thomas Nebel. The District Court entered summary judgment for Brentwood and enjoined the Association from enforcing the Rule. But if formalism were the sine qua non of state action, the doctrine would vanish owing to the ease and inevitability of its evasion, and for just that reason formalism has never been controlling. Public high schools constitute approximately 84% of respondent's voting membership. The justices determined that since Brentwood Academy had voluntarily joined TSSAA, knowing in advance its anti-recruiting rules, the academy had forfeited its First Amendment rights. Between 1972 and 1996, the State Board formally delegated to respondent its authority to regulate interscholastic athletics for the State's public schools. State action may be found if, and only if, there is such a close nexus between the State and the challenged action that seemingly private behavior may be fairly treated as that of the State itself. The court does not look to one factor, but a totality of the circumstances when determining if there is such a close nexus. The Association accordingly put Brentwood's athletic program on probation for four years. officials acting in their official capacity to provide an integral element of secondary public schooling. 1983, claiming that the rule's enforcement was state action that violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. In Gilmore, we held that a city could not grant exclusive use of public facili-. Id. at 301-302. The Court emphasized that Amtrak "is established and organized under federal law for the very purpose of pursuing federal governmental objectives, under the direction and control of federal governmental appointees." The record, however, failed to show any tradition of providing public special education to students unable to cope with a regular school, who had historically been cared for (or ignored) according to private choice. Rendell-Baker, supra, at 843. The coach charged the NCAA with state action, arguing that the state university had delegated its own functions to the NCAA, clothing the latter with authority to make and apply the university's rules, the result being joint action making the NCAA a state actor. 296 BRENTWOOD ACADEMY v. TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSN. Pet. It held that respondent's actions are not fairly attributable to the State under the "state compulsion test" because, in its view, the State had not "coerced or encouraged" the challenged conduct. According to TSSAA bylaws, the letter represented an illegal act of recruitment because the boys were not attending Brentwood Academy when the letters were mailed. The vagueness surrounding what this new principle actually means also places too great a burden on states. In Rendell-Baker v. Kohn, 457 U. S. 830 (1982), for example, the State could have created its own school for students with special needs and charged for admission. Id. 1987) ("Public schools make up 85% of the [association's] membership," and "the overwhelmingly public character of the [association's] membership is sufficient to confer state action. Contracts Consideration and Promissory Estoppel, Introduction to the LSAT 8 Week Prep Course, StudyBuddy Fall 2018 Exam Prep Workshops, The Structure Of The Constitution's Protection Of Civil Rights And Civil Liberties. Pp. Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Florida High School Activities Association, Inc., by Leonard E. Ireland, Jr.; for the Interscholastic Associations by Wayne F. Plaza, Daniel M. Noland, Mallory V. Mayse, and Edmund J. Sikorski, Jr.; and for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association by Danny C. Reeves and David A. French. (a) State action may be found only if there is such a "close nexus between the State and the challenged action" that seemingly private behavior "may be fairly treated as that of the State itself." These cases, therefore, cannot support the majority's "entwinement" theory. For the same reason, it avails the Association nothing to stress that the State neither coerced nor encouraged the actions complained of. 1999) (Gallaudet University is not a government actor since only three of the 21 members of its governing body are public officials); Hack v. President & Fellows of Yale College, 16 F. Supp. For example, such an athletic association could preclude private schools from joining the association based on the race of their students. Although the TSSAA's enforcement activities cannot be considered state action as a matter of common sense or under any of this Court's existing theories of state action, the majority presents a new theory. (202) 514-2203. The Association is not an organization of natural persons acting on their own, but of schools, and of public schools to the extent of 84% of the total. Mutual Ins. 99-5 (May 15, 2000), slip op. 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