July 27, 2001

N.J. Court Allows Rutgers Athletes to Sue Over Being Forced to Run Naked

By WELCH SUGGS

By ALEX P. KELLOGG

Two former Rutgers University basketball players and a team manager who say they were humiliated when forced to run naked during a 1997 practice can sue their former coaches for violating their civil rights, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.

The decision this month overturned a lower court's ruling that had dismissed the suit brought by Joshua G. Sankes and Earl Johnson, two former basketball players at Rutgers's New Brunswick campus, and

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