Georgetown University has fired back at law school alum Scott K. Ginsburg, a Texas millionaire. In an answer and counterclaim filed in Dallas federal court on April 9, the university alleges that Ginsburg breached a contract and owes $9 million in pledged donations to Georgetown University Law Center, his alma mater.
Ginsburg had filed a complaint about a month earlier, seeking to recover $7.5 million in donations. He sought recovery, he alleged in his March 4 complaint, because the school had balked at naming a fitness center after him despite its contractual obligations to do so. In his complaint in Scott K. Ginsburg v. Georgetown filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Ginsburg alleged that the law school reneged on a naming-rights agreement reached in 2000 after he was found civilly liable for insider trading. [See "Wealthy Donor Taps Trey Cox for Fight Against Georgetown University Law Center," The National Law Journal, March 11, 2013]
