Counsel for Michigan State University’s former top football coach asked a federal Michigan court to dismiss and impose sanctions over a retaliation suit filed by a former team staff member three weeks after he lost claims alleging he was wrongly fired for failing to cooperate with a sex assault investigation involving team members.
Curtis Blackwell, in a suit filed June 6 in the Eastern District of Michigan, alleges that former MSU Coach Mark Dantonio and his attorney, Thomas Kienbaum, had “damaging information printed and disseminated” about him in retaliation for filing his original suit against Dantonio and for Blackwell’s negative ...
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