Sometimes, being a court reporter has its good days:
Duke University avoided paying the University of Louisville $450,000 for opting out of three football games, but the school had to trash itself to do it.Duke's lawyers argued that the Blue Devils football team, 13-90 since 1999, was so bad any Division I team could have replaced them on the Cardinals' schedule.
On Thursday, Louisville's breach of contract suit, filed in Franklin County (Ky.) Circuit Court, was dismissed because Judge Phillip J. Shepherd found the argument used by Duke lawyers too compelling.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, the judge stated in his summary: "At oral argument, Duke (with a candor perhaps more attributable to good legal strategy than to institutional modesty) persuasively asserted that this is a threshold that could not be any lower. Duke's argument on this point cannot be reasonably disputed by Louisville."
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