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Athlete's challenge heard by judge / Oak Creek player seeks reinstatement 

Lawyers for former Oak Creek High School football player Jamaal Butler went to federal court Friday, seeking to have the star athlete reinstated, a move that, the school argued, would remove any say a school has over the conduct of its student-athletes.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman is expected to rule in the case early next week. . .

said Superintendent John Voorhees: "If we are overturned, athletic codes are essentially non-existent. Kids can do what they feel like, and they don't have to follow rules." . .

Butler was suspended from the Oak Creek football team this fall after the high school said he violated the athletic code five times. . .

The five athletic code violations involved smoking, the finding of marijuana in a pocket of a jacket he was wearing, drinking, intoxication and disorderly conduct. [This graph only]

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