Florida State University filed a revised lawsuit late Monday in a battle that could lead to its withdrawal from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The university’s lawyers filed a 58-page amended complaint in Leon County Circuit Court after filing the original version on Dec. 22.
The revised lawsuit includes seven counts, including alleging that potential punishments to Florida State for leaving the athletic conference would be an “unreasonable restraint of trade” and that the punishments would “violate Florida public policy and are unconscionable.”
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The dispute focuses on a media-rights deal that will run for another 13 years and on steep costs that Florida State could have to pay to exit the conference.
While the ACC has not filed a response to the Leon County lawsuit, it sued Florida State last month in North Carolina.
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