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City D owns a large recreation center but leases it for $1 per year to a nonprofit youth-sports league. The city appoints three of the league's nine board members, pays for utilities, and requires the league to submit annual budgets for approval. The league excludes all players over age 15 from its elite division, refuses to admit children who use wheelchairs because it fears increased insurance costs, and charges a $900 fee that prevents many low-income children from participating.
Parents of excluded children sue the league and the city under the Equal Protection Clause. The league argues that it is private and that, in any event, age, disability, and wealth classifications are not suspect.
Analyze the state-action issue and the likely equal protection review of each challenged policy.