Court to Revisit Case Pitting School Against Tenn. Athletic Association

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a state high school athletic association over whether its rules restricting the recruitment of student-athletes conflict with the free-speech rights of its member schools under the First Amendment.

The court’s Jan. 5 decision to step into the case is the latest development in a protracted, and sometimes bitter, legal battle between the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association and the private Brentwood Academy near Nashville.

The TSSAA contends that the 600-student school agreed to the recruiting rules when it voluntarily joined the association, and that the rules protect an important state interest in...