FOX NEWS / AP: A lawsuit planned by the family of the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno, former players and others connected to the school seeks to overturn the NCAA’s swift and strict sanctions against the football program for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The 40-page suit to be filed Thursday will name as defendants the NCAA and its president, Mark Emmert, and Oregon State President Edward Ray, who was chair of the NCAA’s executive committee, according to a statement released by attorney Wick Sollers and other family representatives late Wednesday night.
The planned litigation also seeks to shine a light on the withering report prepared by former FBI director Louis Freeh, whom the university tapped to lead an investigation into the scandal, and calls into question how and why the NCAA used the report as a basis for its sanctions in July, according to Sollers… (more)
EDITOR: The Paterno family suit may be deemed to have ‘standing’ and thus bring the NCAA actions into the court room for adjudication.
