The UFC will appeal a recent court decision to dismiss its legal challenge to the law that bans MMA in the state of New York, and company officials have retained Paul Clement, a former United States Solicitor General, to represent the company in that effort.
The UFC announced the move Tuesday in a news release.
“I am delighted to be representing the UFC in this important challenge to New York’s outdated and unconstitutional law,” Clement stated in the release. “Even New York officials are confused about the scope of this hopelessly unclear law, and by targeting professional MMA matches and exhibitions, the law raises First Amendment problems of the first order.