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59 Mercer L. Rev. 1027 (2006-2008)
Signed, Your Coach: Restricting Speech in Athletic Recruiting in Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy

handle is hein.journals/mercer59 and id is 1037 raw text is: Casenote Signed, Your Coach: Restricting Speech in Athletic Recruiting in Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy I. INTRODUCTION In Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy (Brentwood I/,),1 the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that an athletic association may enforce its anti-undue-influence recruiting policy, restricting the speech of its voluntary member schools, to avoid undue influence on young student athletes during the recruit- ment process.2 In reaching its holding, the Court extended two lines of First Amendment jurisprudence. First, the Court extended the application of Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Ass'n3 to a context other than attorney-client solicitation for the first time.4 In doing so, the Court held that the possibility of undue influence in athletic recruiting was analogous to that in attorney-client solicitation and harmful enough to 1. 127 S. Ct. 2489 (2007). 2. Id. at 2496. 3. 436 U.S. 447 (1978). 4. Brentwood II, 127 S. Ct. at 2494-95. 1027