The Washington Post, November 9, 1996:

Youth soccer league officials said that the Annandale [Va.] team Matt was joining already had two 8-year-olds and that a new league policy prohibited adding a third.

Then things got messier. Paul Miller, the coach of the team and the one who had urged Matt to join, is also a lawyer. He filed a suit against the league in Fairfax County Circuit Court two months ago, saying that dropping one of the three 8-year-olds from the squad would cause that child "irreparable psychological harm."

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