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Phil Zeeck
@philzeeck.bsky.social
Sports. Lawyer. Kansas City.
Perfect.
August 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
My brother in Christ: skins, seeds, and stems?
August 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So, so sorry. May her memory be a blessing.
April 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Genuine banger. "We were hidin' out under my hat" is cowboy poetry.
February 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Law professor and BALL KNOWER
November 30, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Always a great setting!
November 16, 2024 at 1:43 AM
If you thought Tallahassee Torch & Pitchfork had a good month after the CFP debacle, just wait till a federal judge orders a nationwide Noles blackout.
December 21, 2023 at 4:48 PM
The Copyright Act also entitles copyright holders to get preliminary injunctions in some circumstances. So the ACC may be able to get a federal court order prohibiting the Noles from playing on TV.
December 21, 2023 at 4:47 PM
But Ex Parte Young is an exception to sovereign immunity. So if FSU bolts, the ACC can sue, and if FSU claims sovereign immunity, the ACC can argue Ex Parte Young allows it to sue under the Copyright Act.
December 21, 2023 at 4:45 PM
(Sovereign immunity is the principle going back to English law and earlier that you can't sue the king. That applies now to the federal government and state governments. Yes this means that the Noles are somehow like the King of England. Perfectly normal system we have here.)
December 21, 2023 at 4:13 PM
The problem for a conference is sovereign immunity. If a state university bounces for another conference, any lawsuit from the conference has a good chance of getting dismissed as barred by sovereign immunity.
December 21, 2023 at 4:12 PM
For decades, schools have assigned their home games' broadcast rights to their conferences. That's a big part of a conference's purpose nowadays: bundle the broadcast rights of its members, then sell the bundle to a network.
December 21, 2023 at 4:11 PM
The magic word is "COPYRIGHT." Ex Parte Young allows individuals to sue government officials despite sovereign immunity if the claim arises under the Constitution or a federal statute. The statute in question here is the Copyright Act.
December 21, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Dennis Dodd actually had a pretty good explainer on this back in May, except he didn't say the magic word.

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December 21, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Hancock: “Knowing how busy you are, thank you very much for taking the time to write about college football.” Sheesh.
December 15, 2023 at 8:50 PM
If Rick Scott wanted to make this a Legal Thing, he could have fired off a subpoena. But this is politics, not policy, and nobody politicks better than college football people. (Also sometimes nobody politicks worse. It's complicated.)
December 15, 2023 at 8:46 PM
I once saw Reliant K open for the Orange County Supertones and yes I have purchased your book
December 12, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Was this Brian Cook yes or yes
November 27, 2023 at 2:15 AM