Whatâs the point of having gone to law school if you wonât pontificate about it on sports forums?
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Because law school is fun! All you have to do is work for a few years first to realize that. Although the more lawyers I meet, I think I got lucky with a fairly chill, reasonable group of people.
(probably doesnât work if you go to Duke - kiddingâŠ)
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I worked for a few years first and find law school to be about the furthest thing from fun
Posting on the other hand . . .
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If theyâre filing in state court in Florida, they canât get into the restraint of trade argument â thatâs interstate commerce. Itâs a contract with parties in multiple states.
Any ruling in a state court would have to be narrow.
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Wonder if filing in Florida has added benefits given the political landscape there and the desire to grandstand
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Itâs bizarre to me that a party can sign a (hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars) contract that they donât get a copy of, canât take pictures of, canât copy verbatim from, and have to travel to another state to look at it.
But maybe I just donât know how things work. Is this a normal thing?
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They reason youâd do it is to avoid FOIA, as someone else said up thread.
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They can memorize it though, right? FSU lawyers bringing along a new guy:
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Can you FOIA someoneâs brain?
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ACC frantically redrafting the rules of engagement ⊠âno photographic memory â like, have to prove you forget at least one of your in-lawsâ names â and no rain men.â
Nothing to see here ⊠just Jim Phillips casually dropping a box of toothpicks onto the floor as he walks to the GOR vault and seeing who starts countingâŠ
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Per The AthleticâŠ
âThe complaint was filed in the circuit court of the Second Judicial Circuit in Leon County, Fla.â
âThe launch of the ACC Network in 2019 triggered a requirement that ESPN decide by 2021 whether it would extend the contract from 2027 to 2036. But in August 2021, new ACC commissioner Jim Phillips extended that deadline to February 2025 in a formal amendment that he allegedly signed on his own without approval from two-thirds of his membership, which is required by league bylaws. The complaint concludes there is currently no guarantee of media rights revenue for the conference beyond June 2027.â
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âFSU is fucked. Definitely fucked. Will someone drive me to K-Mart before Wapnerâ -Raymond
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Someone plz link the complaint.
It should be illegal to report on legal matters without including copies of/links to the legal documents in question.
NVM got it
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Sec doesnât want them
Big 12? 10?
12 doesnât get them anymore cash?
FSU trying to take their ball and go home
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Kind of unfortunate that Jim Ryan is chair of the ACC Board right now
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Gonna edit this, and just note: Every contract restrains trade, kinda! The rest was just me blathering⊠what else is new.
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While thatâs true, I canât see any scenario in which a state court has jurisdiction over these matters. The ACC will likely seek to get the case heard in federal district court.
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