Jackson Lewis Retained by PSU Trustee Seeking NCAA Appeal
The Am Law Daily
August 10, 2012
Two years after hiring former sports agent Gregg Clifton to build out its collegiate and professional sports practice, labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis has been retained by a member of Penn State's board of trustees to appeal National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions levied against the school in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Full Text
Representation of Sandusky Shower Victim Confirmed
The Legal Intelligencer
July 27, 2012
The formerly unidentified victim who Mike McQueary said he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky rape in a Penn State locker room shower in 2001, long referred to in court filings only as "Victim 2," has come forward with plans to sue the university, his attorneys announced Thursday. Full Text
PSU Insurer: Public Policy Bars Coverage in Sandusky Suits
The Legal Intelligencer
July 26, 2012
In light of the Freeh report's statement that Penn State officials allegedly concealed sexual-abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the university's insurer has said it would be contrary to Pennsylvania public policy to provide the university coverage under any insurance policy it issued. Full Text
Collateral Appeal in Sandusky Case Viable, Defense Lawyers Say
The Legal Intelligencer
July 24, 2012
As former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky awaits his sentence for a 45-count conviction of sex crimes, one of his attorneys has filed an appeal relating to a post-trial protective order the presiding judge issued to the defense. Full Text
Spanier Pleads His Case With Penn State Board
The Legal Intelligencer
July 24, 2012
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier wrote a letter to the university's board of trustees Sunday to say the findings of Louis B. Freeh's investigation into the university's handling of allegations against Jerry Sandusky was fraught with factual errors. Spanier said his attorneys would confidentially share with the university the "many errors" contained in the 267-page Freeh report. Full Text
NCAA Levies Steep Fines, Institutional Changes on Penn State
Corporate Counsel
July 23, 2012
In an unprecedented action, the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Monday made its response to the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse scandal by imposing sweeping sanctions on Penn State University that included gutting the university’s football program and demanding an array of ethics and compliance reform measures. Among those measures are an athletics integrity agreement and oversight by a third-party monitor for five years. Full Text
State Farm Doesn't Want to Defend Sandusky in Civil, Criminal Cases
The Legal Intelligencer
July 23, 2012
State Farm has asked a federal judge to declare it does not have to defend former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in his ongoing criminal proceedings and that it does not have to defend or indemnify Sandusky in a civil suit filed against him in Philadelphia last year by an alleged abuse victim.Full Text
The Freeh Report: A Case Study in How People Rationalize Ignoring Evil
The Legal Intelligencer
July 17, 2012
After reading the Freeh report, there's no getting around it: Joe Paterno fucked up. I apologize for the bad language, but there's no other way to describe it. Besides, little kids aren't reading this, and if they do, I think it will be far more damaging to their psyche to learn that powerful and influential men could care so little for their welfare or fail them so badly. Full Text
Freeh Report Weighs Baldwin's Performance as Counsel
The Legal Intelligencer
July 17, 2012
On Jan. 22, 2010, former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Baldwin became the first general counsel of Penn State University — more than a decade after allegations of child sexual abuse against former university assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky surfaced in the late 1990s. Full Text
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