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4 Ent. & Sports Law. 1 (1985-1986)

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U AND SPORTS LAWER
Volume 4, Number. 1, Summer 1985
The NCAA's Enforcement Procedure-
Erosion of Confidentiality
Glenn M. Wong and Richard J. Ensor

INTRODUCTION1
A growing and troublesome trend for the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (hereinafter referred
t9 as NCAA) in it's enforcement procedures against
member institutions are law suits filed by news and
other media organizations seeking information con-
cerning the NCAA's investigation of an athletic pro-
gram. Such litigation is viewed by the NCAA and

many of its member institutions as destroying the
confidential nature of NCAA investigations. For in-
stance, in 1984, the University of Florida filed a de-
claratory suit in Florida State District Court against
the Miami Herald Publishing Co., the St. Petersburg
Times, and Campus Communications, Inc., publish-
er of the University of Florida student newspaper,
The Gator.2 The University of Florida asked the

ilustration by Dan HurleyI