Pitt Seeks Court’s Help to Exit Nike Contract

By Matt Hudgins*   In a rare legal skirmish between a sporting goods manufacturer and a university, the University of Pittsburgh has sued Nike Inc. to void the last year of a 3-year contract, which reportedly requires the university’s football program to accept and use Nike uniforms and equipment.   Attorneys Mike Manzo and Charles Gibbons of the Pittsburgh law firm Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling are representing Pitt in the case. Manzo declined to comment to Sports Litigation Alert