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Supreme Court to consider Mayo case
From staff, wire reports
CHARLESTON -- A case involving local basketball standout O.J. Mayo is on the docket this month as the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals returns from its summer recess.
The Mayo case is among several high-profile cases on the court's docket this month.
The WVSSAC seeks reversal of last year's decision by Cabell Circuit Judge Dan O'Hanlon. The commission claims his ruling would require drastic changes to its structure.
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments in Mayo's case on Sept. 10.
The case involved Mayo's ejection at a Huntington High game against Capital High School on Jan. 26, 2007.
O'Hanlon eventually struck down the WVSSAC forfeiture rule as being unconstitutional, and ruled that the WVSSAC is a state agency, thereby awarding attorney fees be paid to Mayo.
The WVSSAC appealed all of these decisions, noting in its petition to the high court that the forfeiture rule shouldn't have been ruled on by O'Hanlon because the rule was not being questioned in the case.
Mayo is a rookie member of Memphis Grizzlies.
