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The Florida High School Athletic Association filed a document asking justices to turn down an appeal by Tampa's Cambridge Christian School.

The justices will discuss whether to take up the case during a Sept. 29 closed-door meeting.

School districts will be mandated under new law to provide low-cost electrocardiograms to student-athletes in Grades 9-12. The tests can detect deadly heart conditions.

The yearslong dispute is about whether the school should have been barred from offering a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before an FHSAA football championship game.

The school will ask the high court to overturn a decision last year by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the FHSAA over a prayer on a stadium loudspeaker before a football game.

The case stemmed from a 2015 game at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium where the FHSAA blocked Cambridge Christian from praying over the public address system.

The panel concluded that announcements over the loudspeaker at the 2015 game were “government speech.”

The FHSAA approved the change in June to allow compensation for use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses.

The Florida High School Athletic Association is slated Tuesday to consider allowing student athletes to earn money through endorsement deals under what is known as a name, image and likeness, or NIL, policy.

The State Board of Education approved the changes as Florida challenges a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX.

The Florida High School Athletic Association held a discussion about a potential change to the organization’s bylaws that would allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy.

The Florida High School Athletic Association could potentially sanction competitive video gaming, or esports, as an official sport, amid growing interest from member schools.