Please don’t read too much into this. The Big East filed a motion in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court to have the case removed to U.S. Federal District Court. Contrary to the very ill-informed headline, the case has not been transferred at this time.
In the lawsuit, filed May 11, Pitt seeks damages for several transactions it has had to make in its effort to leave the Big East. It seeks repayment of $250,000, for instance, that it had to pay another school to buy out their contract to play a home football game, when it had to cancel that game to make room for new conference member Texas Christian University.
The Big East’s court filing Monday said that since the conference and the school are in different states, and the amount in dispute is substantial, the case should be heard in federal court.
It is really such a minor legal motion considering this case will never get to trial. We all know this suit was filed to force the Big East to get the matter settled.
Still, to misunderstand that it is a motion is stupid. Not to mention it does not mention which District Court they want the case removed to. Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)? Rhode Island? The lack of any actual information is annoying, but I don’t care enough to dig. The only thing that a move to U.S. District Court would allow is to make it easier to join or for Syracuse to join the case.
We will get a new AD after we get settled in the ACC.
This asking for the case to be moved, could suggest the BigLeast is going to fight this case. And if it gets moved to Rhode Island, that would be a given the Judge will side with the BigLeast, since Rhode Island is so crooked.
Even in Pittsburgh we could still lose the case, if the judge assigned is a Pedo State or wvu or Duquesne graduate and/or booster.
The way things have gone at Pitt, the last few years and the dark cloud effect, leave it to Pitt to screw things up. Just sayin.
God I hope not, another year of playing Temple and the other rag-a-muffins being added to the BigLeast would be extremely nauseating.
This should spead up a resolution as the local courts are slower than fed ct.
Typically, they will grab the attorneys from both sides and say “work it out”. If you don’t you run a great risk to lose everything and you do not want to go back to your client with a goose egg. Then, they go back on the record and the tone is set and the negotiating begins.
Personally, I think Pitt should not move off the $5million unless they can resolve at 7M. Anything higher is a loss. Listen, Pitt had the best contract Dean in the U.S. with John Murray. I had to read his book, Murray on Contracts, for crying out loud! I would have hoped they consulted with him prior to the move. The man is just awesome.
He once answered a student email at 4:00am on a weekend! Truly phenominal and showed his love for the law!
View this as the next step in the divorce and property settlement between Pitt and the Fools in Providence.
link to dcr.alleghenycounty.us