Gina Ford’s suit against Zion Williamson had begun to look ridiculous over the summer. Now a federal judge has ruled against her and in favor of Williamson because it didn’t meet the standards of North Carolina’s Uniform Athlete Agents Act.
Here’s what Judge Loretta C. Biggs specifically had to say:
“Defendants’ affirmative defenses and counterclaims that Plaintiff was not a student-athlete do not rely on material allegations of fact, rather a conclusion of law that flies in the face of their own pleadings as well as attachments to their pleadings. Although Defendants assert that their pleadings make clear that they contest Plaintiff’s status as a student-athlete at the time that the Agreement was entered, this assertion is in direct conflict with their admission that Plaintiff was actively engaging in an intercollegiate sport — namely, men’s basketball — which is one of the ways the UAAA provides that an individual can be deemed a student-athlete.