A new lawsuit alleges UNC’s Board of Trustees approved the hiring of Bill Belichick in an illegal closed session in December, among other violations of North Carolina’s open-meetings and public-records laws.
UNC provost Chris Clemens filed the lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court. The lawsuit, which largely revolves around the issue of tenure deferral, outlines a “pattern and practice” by UNC’s trustees to systemically hide “matters of grave public concern behind closed doors.”
To bolster his argument, Clemens — and David McKenzie, his lawyer) cited multiple examples — many of which pertain to athletics…