Michigan State has 10 days to publicly disclose the agreements between the university and mega-donors Mat Ishbia and Stephen St. Andre used to fund much of the $95 million contract given to football coach Mel Tucker last year, according to a court decision handed down earlier this week.
Judge Brock A. Swartzle of the State of Michigan Court of Claims sided with the Detroit Free Press, which sued for the records after the university repeatedly blocked the release of the agreements.
Swartzle wrote in his decision Monday: "MSU has not pointed this Court to a single authority applying Michigan law that supports its contention that the amounts of the gifts, the payment schedules, or the donors' expressed desires for how the university should use the funds constitutes private or confidential information.