Florida State submits movement to dismiss ACC suit

Andrea Adelson, ESPN

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• Graduate of the University of Florida.The Florida State board of trustees filed a movement Wednesday to dismiss the claim the ACC filed versus it in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.In the motion, Florida State argues the ACC suit is” essentially

  flawed “and an incorrect effort at”procedural fencing. “They cite a” race to the court house “to file suit versus Florida State first, its failure to protect a two-thirds member vote required by the league constitution to initiate a suit and a failure to show the Florida State board approved the grant of rights as needed by Florida law, among several reasons.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated If the court does not dismiss the suit, Florida State has actually asked the court to provide a remain on the ACC fit

in favor of

the lawsuit it filed versus the ACC in Leon County, Florida. It argues “the Florida Action is the more comprehensive and more comprehensive action, and the ACC ought to not be entitled to any first-filing deference as an outcome of its inappropriate forum-shopping.”The ACC filed suit versus Florida State on Dec. 21 seeking declaratory judgment in defense of the grant of rights, one day before the

Florida State board filed its claim against the ACC that challenged the grant of rights and $130 million withdrawal fee.Florida State and all other ACC members signed a grant of rights with the league that runs through 2036, the length of its television agreement with ESPN.

The grant of rights gives the conference control over its media rights– including television earnings and home game broadcasts in all sports. In addition, any school that wants to leave the ACC would need to pay an exit fee of 3 times the league’s operating budget, or roughly $130 million.