A lawyer for a former Michigan State football staff member has thrown out the playbook, switched up opponents, and even changed venues.
Curtis Blackwell has filed yet another lawsuit against his ex-boss, former football coach Mark Dantonio, and also is suing Dantonio's lawyer and the law firm Michigan State hired to investigate the athletic department's handling of sexual-assault allegations.
Blackwell's lawyer, Andrew Paterson, claims in the case, which was filed late Saturday night in federal court in Detroit that Dantonio and his lawyer conspired to "dig up dirt" on Blackwell during a previous federal case, and that the Jones Day law firm served as "agents" for Michigan State in smearing Blackwell's reputation in its reporting clearing MSU of any wrongdoing in the wake of two sexual-assault allegations in 2017.