Former Michigan State recruiting director Curtis Blackwell is suing Mark Dantonio and other current and former MSU officials over what he calls an unlawful arrest and retaliatory termination from his job last year.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Blackwell claims that Dantonio, former athletic director Mark Hollis and former school president Lou Anna K. Simon did not renew his contract as retaliation for Blackwell's lack of cooperation with a school sexual assault investigation.
In addition, Blackwell claims that MSU police detectives Chad Davis and Sam Miller unlawfully arrested him in violation of his constitutional rights.