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June 5, 2012

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.





The Allegheny County Court hasn’t updated the online docket yet, so we’ll have to wait a little longer to see where the case transfers.

link to dcr.alleghenycounty.us

Comment by jt 06.05.12 @ 11:21 am

And if removed to federal court, Pitt has the option to oppose the removal by asking that the federal court send it back to state court. I have to believe that Pitt’s lawyers anticipated this issue in putting the lawsuit together. Having the case in Allegheny County Court does give the appearance of greater leverage to Pitt than having it in a federal court, but as Chas says, either way it’s unlikely this case will ever be tried.

Comment by velvil 06.05.12 @ 11:44 am

What a waste of money. If Pederson would get on the phone and call people, this and the SEC situation would never need to happen.

We will get a new AD after we get settled in the ACC.

Comment by Old Pitt Grad 06.05.12 @ 12:48 pm

Strange, I don’t recall the BigEast asking for the wvu suit to be moved out of Hooterville County.

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.

Comment by Emel 06.05.12 @ 3:13 pm

The move to federal court will be here in the western district. It will go to fed ct so long as the big east can show little or no ties to PA.
This should spead up a resolution as the local courts are slower than fed ct.

Comment by Pitt Letterman 06.05.12 @ 4:27 pm

The Big East lawyers did seek to remove to federal court after they filed late in either new york or rhode island. Federal Courts won’t mess around with this too long, depending on the Judge.

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!

Comment by dhuffdaddy 06.05.12 @ 8:56 pm

I’m having fun in the philly on-line paper with the PSU fans – please feel free to chime in – they removed my second comment

link to philly.com

Comment by dish 06.05.12 @ 9:17 pm

The least useless part of that article is the blurb announcing that the backup QB to Matt Barkley’s backup’s backup is transferring out of USC.

Comment by cnorwoodaz 06.06.12 @ 1:14 am

EMEL…The BE did move to have the WVU case transferred to federal court while also filing its own suit in federal court.
View this as the next step in the divorce and property settlement between Pitt and the Fools in Providence.

Comment by SFPitt 06.06.12 @ 2:25 am

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