STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett said he is suing the NCAA on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania over sanctions given to Penn State’s football program in the wake of a child sexual abuse scandal.
Corbett, the former state attorney general, made the announcement Wednesday at a press conference at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State’s campus. The anti-trust lawsuit is being filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, the state capital.
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He called the sanctions unlawful and overreaching and said they were an “attack” on students and the economy of the Commonwealth.
“I have heard from many across Pennsylvania about sanctions and people are upset,” Corbett said to about 50 news media representatives. “People around the commonwealth have been harmed. Why punish citizens of Pennsylvania who had nothing to do with this?”
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