Metro

Slam Dunk

Judge allows JAMD
into state tournaments.

ALAN HITSKY

Associate Editor

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936070

he Michigan High School
Athletic Association is now 0-3
against the Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit.
JAMD's pro bono attorney, Steven Z.
Cohen, filed an emergency motion with
Oakland County Circuit Court last
week, which was granted by Judge Rae
Lee Chabot. The order allows JAMD's
girls' volleyball and boys' basketball
teams to participate in the state high
school tournaments in March.
Cohen, based in Royal Oak, had filed
a request last month in JAMD's ongoing
lawsuit against the MHSAA, asking that
games
ames not be scheduled on Friday , nights
b
or Saturdays for JAMD teams. The
school, he said, received a letter last week
from the MHSAA, stating that JAMD
teams would not even be placed in the
preliminary district pairings if the teams
could not participate in the entire tour-
nament.
Cohen responded with his emergency
motion on Feb. 9, and Judge Chabot
granted the motion the next day.
"[The judge] has said every time to
the MHSAA, 'If you are a senior in high
school, and this is your last chance to
participate in a state tournament, then
there is irreparable harm,"' Cohen said.
Oakland Christian in Auburn Hills,
which is hosting the district tourna-
ments involving both JAMD teams, had
selected Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights for the basketball games. JAMD
could be Oakland Christian's main rival
in the Class D district. Class D includes
schools with 250 or less enrollment.
JAMD has 165 students.
Mid-week last week, JAMD's basket-
ball team had a 10-5 record. The volley-
ball team was 7-5.
JAMD's lawsuit against the MHSAA
scheduling is to be heard in March.
Last spring, JAMD won a court
injunction to have a district baseball
game rescheduled from Saturday so that
its team could play. The team won two
games in the district tournament before
losing.
Last fall, the MHSAA revoked
JAMD's annual membership application
because JAMD had requested a waiver
of MHSAA's complete authority over
scheduling. Judge Chabot overturned
the revocation.

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