{"id":417447,"date":"2026-10-03T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417447\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:30:38","slug":"federal-judge-dismisses-jacksonville-hs-lawsuit-against-alabama-high-school-athletic-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417447\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge dismisses Jacksonville HS lawsuit against Alabama High School Athletic Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/10\/01\/jacksonville-hs-coaches-families-file-lawsuit-against-ahsaa-over-recruiting-penalties\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/10\/01\/jacksonville-hs-coaches-families-file-lawsuit-against-ahsaa-over-recruiting-penalties\/\">The lawsuit, brought by coaches and players\u2019 families at Jacksonville High School<\/a>, asked the judge to throw out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/09\/24\/jacksonville-hs-head-assistant-football-coach-suspended-violating-recruiting-rule\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2026\/09\/24\/jacksonville-hs-head-assistant-football-coach-suspended-violating-recruiting-rule\/\">recruiting penalties and argued that AHSAA rules are too strict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AHSAA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791001838_84_C4CE2HH6JFHNVHIHR2B37HNYWM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>AHSAA(WSFA 12 News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Friday, a federal judge in the northern district of Alabama dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the case must be filed in Montgomery courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Alabama High School Athletic Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39433,156320,116,118,40318,164781,164782,117,8031,8021,8030,8029,8028,8027,8022],"class_list":["post-417447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-ahsaa","tag-alabama-high-school-athletic-association","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-high-school","tag-jacksonville-high-school-football","tag-jacksonville-hs","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-myfoxal","tag-wbrc","tag-wbrc-6-news","tag-wbrc-6news","tag-wbrc-fox-6-news","tag-wbrc-fox6-news","tag-wbrc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}