I'm not sure if there is an extant FSU v. ACC thread for all the dueling lawsuits, so I'm slapping this here. Unsurprisingly the home town courts ruled they had jurisdiction, and there are appeals in North Carolina and Florida.
The N.C. Court stayed the underlying suit while FSU's appeal works its way to the N.C. Supreme Court.
https://apnews.com/article/acc-florida-state-f3373cd22d6ec2a9a7b069aa72f6a18b
Today a Tallahassee judge declined to return the favor.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2024/10/11/florida-judge-denies-request-by-acc-to-put-hold-on-fsus-lawsuit/75553337007/
The N.C. Court stayed the underlying suit while FSU's appeal works its way to the N.C. Supreme Court.
https://apnews.com/article/acc-florida-state-f3373cd22d6ec2a9a7b069aa72f6a18b
Today a Tallahassee judge declined to return the favor.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2024/10/11/florida-judge-denies-request-by-acc-to-put-hold-on-fsus-lawsuit/75553337007/
On the FSU247 board they had what amounted to a game thread for the hearing, and it was reported that the Judge said he'd have his ruling within 10 minutes of the hearing, probably to account for the other words that were going to accompany "Denied".Quote:
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In an online hearing on the conference's motion to dismiss pending appellate review, Circuit Judge John C. Cooper denied the ACC's motion. That allows proceedings in Leon County to continue while awaiting a ruling from Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal on the conference's cases.
The ACC argued that the case should be stayed, or paused, as the court awaits a ruling from the district court. The argument centered around both the North Carolina cases and the Florida cases being on the same timeline, with the conference's counsel arguing one case going ahead of another could cause harm.
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