The PGA Tour has requested the U.S. District Court in Southern Florida dismiss Hank Haney’s lawsuit that claims the circuit interfered with his contract with SiriusXM radio in 2019.
Haney was originally suspended following racist and sexist comments on his radio show prior to the ’19 U.S. Women’s Open. Shortly afterward Haney’s show was cancelled and the lawsuit, which was filed in December 2019, claimed the Tour “improperly intimidated, enticed and threatened SiriusXM Radio to suspend and ultimately terminate Haney’s radio broadcast.”
In the request for summary judgement the Tour claims Haney’s lawsuit should be dismissed “as a matter of law because the record is devoid of evidence.