An appeals court Thursday rejected a request by the Atlantic Coast Conference for a rehearing after a ruling last month in a legal battle between the conference and Florida State University.
The ACC asked for a rehearing after a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal allowed a lawsuit that the university filed against the conference to proceed.
The ruling was rooted in dueling lawsuits filed in December 2023 about issues such as sports media rights — and the possibility that Florida State could try to leave the conference.
The ACC filed a lawsuit in North Carolina one day before the university filed a lawsuit in Leon County circuit court. The conference has argued that because its lawsuit was filed first, the Florida case should be put on hold until the North Carolina lawsuit is resolved.
After Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper in June rejected the ACC’s request for a stay in the Florida case, the conference filed a petition for what is known as a writ of certiorari at the 1st District Court of Appeal.
But the three-judge panel rejected the petition, leading the conference to seek a rehearing — or possibly a rehearing before the full appeals court. The court, as is common, did not explain its reasons Thursday for rejecting the rehearing request.
