News Article: Clemson wants ACC to pay for ‘malicious conduct’ and slander in lawsuit

[Slowpoke Catracho]

The Tigers are now seeking “punitive damages to Clemson for the ACC’s willful and malicious conduct,” including “slander of title.” That request is part of an amended complaint filed last month in Pickens County, South Carolina, but made public Thursday.

Clemson wants ACC to pay for ‘malicious conduct’ and slander in lawsuit

The Tigers updated their lawsuit against the conference. The litigation affects FSU, too.

www.tampabay.com

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Maintaining your contractual rights is "willful and malicious conduct"?!?!?

Don't insult the audience.

Mr. Magoo could see through this. They're trying to manufacture damages so they'll have something to negotiate their way out of the ACC Grant of Rights that they themselves signed.

They might get away with it in a South Carolina court, but it would get overturned by an appeals court in about half a second.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

A South Carolina court has ordered the Atlantic Coast Conference to turn over documents about its agreements with ESPN that Clemson has requested in its lawsuit against the conference.

ACC told to provide Clemson with ESPN deal docs

A South Carolina court has order the Atlantic Coast Conference to provide Clemson with agreements between itself and ESPN the school has sought in its lawsuit in trying to leave its longtime home.

www.espn.com

 

[dtgreg]

ACC told to provide Clemson with ESPN deal docs

A South Carolina court has order the Atlantic Coast Conference to provide Clemson with agreements between itself and ESPN the school has sought in its lawsuit in trying to leave its longtime home.

www.espn.com

I think I'm beginning to see a winning strategy here: Discovery. The networks and Conferences DO NOT want details of negotiations and texts/emails made public or even shared with individual schools. In fact, the Networks' desire of secrecy is so strong it may induce them to let the ACC out of its contract or renegotiate.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

which conference would even want clempson now? they will just sue everyone to get their way

 

[Tidewater]

I see an argument that is stupid on its face, and then I think, "you know, just because an argument is stupid does not mean a judge won't say, 'Yeah, okay.'"
Who knows? A judge might just buy it.
but I think dtgreg is correct. This may just be about discovery.

 

[davefrat]

I see an argument that is stupid on its face, and then I think, "you know, just because an argument is stupid does not mean a judge won't say, 'Yeah, okay.'"
Who knows? A judge might just buy it.
but I think dtgreg is correct. This may just be about discovery.

Unless Clemson's attorneys at the time they agreed to contract were total morons, it's very hard to see how a sophisticated academic institution could claim that it was somehow duped into an unconscionable contract as Clemson is alleging.

Perhaps this could create some leverage in negotiations, but in terms of a solid legal argument, it sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

You are on to something here which sticks in my craw. Morons in charge of our higher learning intuitions? ALL these in charge are well educated college graduates! Yet, they lie all the time when it comes to firing and hiring head coaches, head coaches denying they are leaving up until the day they leave, lying about illegal endeavors and etc. The excuse is always the same. I, or we, had no choice because the truth would have been bad for recruiting, would have hurt the team, etc., etc.
I will add that these morons constantly make bone-headed hires quite often even when the unwashed masses wonder "what was he, they, thinking." How about those morons who have been in charge of the NCAA for as long as I can remember! To sum it all up let me show you the smoking gun pointed at AD's, HC's, commissioners, and the grand potentates in charge. Heck, the landscape is littered with shell casings.

 

[GrayTide]

Both Clemson and FSU, in or out of the ACC, are going to be on the outside looking in at the SEC, B1G, hell even the Big XII. I would not want either program in the SEC.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I think I'm beginning to see a winning strategy here: Discovery. The networks and Conferences DO NOT want details of negotiations and texts/emails made public or even shared with individual schools. In fact, the Networks' desire of secrecy is so strong it may induce them to let the ACC out of its contract or renegotiate.

WHAT could be so important that they would want to keep it a secret?!?

I mean, contracts ain't rocket surgery...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Unless Clemson's attorneys at the time they agreed to contract were total morons, it's very hard to see how a sophisticated academic institution could claim that it was somehow duped into an unconscionable contract as Clemson is alleging.

Perhaps this could create some leverage in negotiations, but in terms of a solid legal argument, it sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.

Lawyers work to get paid, not win...