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RE: WVU-Big East Trial tentatively set for 6/25/12
Big East files motion today.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/fo...index.html
Quote:In motions filed with Monongalia County Circuit Court, the Big East contends WVU should be required to abide by the rules that it helped draft and repeatedly agreed to. If they don't, it's the conference - not WVU - that would suffer "irreparable harm."
"The lawsuit seeks, in effect, judicial blessing for WVU's breach of the bylaws," the lawyers argued.
WVU is set to respond with its own filings by Friday.
It sued the Big East in Morgantown, arguing the conference had violated its fiduciary responsibility to members by failing to balance the number of football-playing and non-football schools.
But the Big East says the bylaws have no such responsibility, so WVU can't challenge them on that front. The bylaws do, however, require WVU to stay in the conference until July 2014.
WVU has offered no legal foundation for why it should be excused from the agreement, the Big East said. Complaints of "impossibility, impracticability, frustration of purpose ... do not constitute causes of action."
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