Former Michigan State football recruiting director Curtis Blackwell filed a lawsuit against head coach Mark Dantonio and several others at the university this week, claiming that he was unlawfully arrested and his employment with the university was ended improperly last year.
The lawsuit says Blackwell's former bosses overreacted and "ran roughshod" over his constitutional rights in an effort to demonstrate that Michigan State did not tolerate "cover-ups" in the immediate wake of the abuse scandal involving former university doctor Larry Nassar.