Mater Dei challenging “athletically motivated” transfer rule … the result could affect everyone Posted on December 17, 2010 by Fred Robledo From the L.A. Times: An amended complaint filed this week in Orange County Superior Court by lawyers for Santa Ana Mater Dei and the Diocese of Orange challenges the enforcement of a controversial CIF rule adopted in 2009 regarding “athleticially motivated” transfers, alleging that the Southern Section has been using the rule to discriminate against Mater Dei athletes. “In blunt terms, the lawyers charge that the Southern Section “consistently, intentionally and systematically has engaged in arbitrary actions against Mater Dei by issuing and enforcing unsupported and erroneous findings and rulings relating to eligibility of students athletes at Mater Dei.”