Overview

• Montgomery County Judge J. R. Gaines issued a temporary restraining order Friday barring the AHSAA from using acceptance of CHOOSE Act funds as the sole reason to declare a transfer ineligible.
• The ruling takes effect immediately and leaves all other AHSAA eligibility provisions in place, allowing affected students to play for now.
• Gov. Kay Ivey and House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter filed the lawsuit after the AHSAA reaffirmed this week that education savings accounts constitute financial aid under a rule it says preserves competitive equity.
• Gaines said student-athletes would suffer irreparable harm by losing games they cannot make up, outweighing any harm to the AHSAA.
• The CHOOSE Act offers up to $7,000 for private-school tuition or public transfers and $2,000 for homeschooling, with 23,429 students participating statewide this school year.