PICKENS, South Carolina - A Pickens County Circuit Court judge denied the request of the Atlantic Coast Conference to abate, or stay, Clemson’s lawsuit against the conference in the state of South Carolina.
The league asked judge Perry H. Gravely to abate, or in the words of ACC counsel Jim Cooney, “park to the side” the South Carolina case where Clemson has sued the conference. Gravely said the ACC didn’t provide enough proof that the lawsuit shouldn’t continue in South Carolina but did dismiss a “sovereign immunity” claim by Clemson that the lawsuit should only be heard in South Carolina, meaning the case will continue to be heard in North Carolina.