Florida State’s latest legal step against the Atlantic Coast Conference was made Wednesday.
The Seminoles have asked a North Carolina court for dismissal of the ACC’s lawsuit there because, among other things, it was premature and filed improperly without the required vote of conference membership, according to the ACC constitution.
FSU and the ACC have been in a legal tug-of-war since last December as the Seminoles explore a potential exit from the conference.
The ACC originally filed its lawsuit against FSU on Dec. 21, 2023, a day before the Seminoles’ Board of Trustees approved its lawsuit against the conference.
FSU is seeking declaratory judgment to void the league’s grant of rights and and hefty withdrawal fee.
In its motion filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court Wednesday, FSU called the ACC’s preemptive suit “an admitted ‘race to the courthouse’ to secure what it hoped would proved to be a more favorable forum.
Citing the ACC’s improper attempt at “procedural fending,” FSU said the ACC’s lawsuit against FSU is fundamentally flawed for a host of reasons: