Ultimate Fighting Championship has retained former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to represent the promotion in its appeal against New York’s ban on MMA.
Earlier this month, Judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the UFC’s lawsuit against the state on a technicality, ruling that New York’s MMA law “is so vaguely written that reasonable people could not understand what it prohibited.”
However, Wood advised the UFC and its co-plaintiffs to “consider filing new vagueness claims.” The judge also said that the New York Attorney General’s statement that that state’s ban prohibits sanctioned MMA was made “despite the law’s plain language to the contrary.