Former Oregon running backs coach Carlos Locklyn is asking for the civil suit filed against him by UO for breach of contact be dismissed.
In a pair of filings in Lane County Circuit Court last week Locklyn’s attorneys ask the university’s claim for “unjust enrichment” be dismissed because there is “an adequate legal remedy” for the claim of breach of contract. UO is seeking $400,000 for breach of contract, per Locklyn’s buyout for leaving Oregon for Ohio State last spring, and the amount owed is in dispute.
“As a matter of law, these legal and equitable remedies cannot coexist,” Ansel Carr, one of Locklyn’s attorneys from Littler Mendelson P.C., writes in the motion to dismiss. “The parties merely disagree on the interpretation of” the amount owed in the buyout clause of his contract…