Maryland AG Files Antitrust Action against the Atlantic Coast Conference

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has alleged in two legal actions that “the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) violated antitrust laws and other obligations by seeking to impose an excessive $53 million withdrawal penalty for Maryland's pending departure to the Big Ten Conference.”   First, Gansler charged that the so-called “exit fee” is an illegal restraint of trade in violation of antitrust laws. Second, he moved to dismiss the ACC's “hastily filed” state court actio