CBS NEWS: The NCAA said Thursday a judge should throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit the governor filed against it over Penn State’s $60 million fine and other penalties resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal…
The NCAA said the penalties imposed under a July consent decree with the university are unrelated to regulation of economic activity, so antitrust law does not apply. It also argued Corbett lacks standing to sue and called his lawsuit “an inappropriate attempt to drag the federal courts into an intra-state political dispute.”
“The remedial measures that Penn State agreed to were controversial, and have elicited strong feelings on all sides,” the NCAA’s lawyers wrote. “Some think they are too harsh, and some think they are too lenient. But none of those feelings have anything to do with the antitrust laws.”… (more)
