Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit against the Indiana High School Athletic Association in a bid to eliminate a race-based quota for the association’s board of directors, which reserves two of its 19 seats for minorities.
The lawsuit, filed in Marion County Superior Court Wednesday, alleges the IHSAA is engaging in racial discrimination in how it selects board leadership in violation of its nonprofit status.
IHSAA bylaws reserve two seats for “qualified minorities,” defined as “an individual other than a white male or female,” according to the lawsuit…