Williamson, who played one season at Duke before becoming the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, sued Ford and Prime Sports in June 2019 to end his marketing deal with his company. The legal battle over the deal began in June 2019, when Williamson ended the recently signed deal to sign with mega-agency CAA. Ford quickly threatened to sue for $100 million, which it did after Williamson`s team filed a preemptive lawsuit against it. In Wednesday`s ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta C. Biggs struck down Williamson`s marketing deal with Gina Ford and Prime Sports Marketing for failing to meet the requirements of North Carolina`s Uniform Athlete Officer Act. According to ESPN, Biggs decided that Williamson was a student athlete at Duke when he signed the marketing deal, that he was not declared permanently unfit by the NCAA, that the agreement contained no necessary warning about eligibility, that Ford was not a certified agent in North Carolina, and that Williamson`s warehouse had told Ford that the contract had been terminated. In particular, Biggs decided williamson was a student-athlete at Duke when he became involved in Ford`s business; he had not been declared permanently unfit by the NCAA; Ford was not a certified agent in North Carolina; the agreement did not contain the warnings required by law; and Williamson and his family told Ford they would cancel and cancel the contract.

Although Williamson did not sign directly with Nike, Jordan Brand is a subsidiary of Nike, suggesting that the February incident did not prevent him from doing so during negotiations. Williamson`s lawyers argued from the outset that Ford`s deal should be declared invalid because Prime Sports was not certified by the NBPA or was considered a north Carolina registered agent, and the contract did not contain a bold and uppercase line clearly indicating that Williamson would lose his college eligibility if he had signed, as required by the Uniform Act of Athletes` Officers in North Carolina. The law is one of many national laws designed to protect student-athletes from shady „agents.“ „We are grateful that the court struck down the contract on the merits of the case in accordance with the clear and relevant requirements of North Carolina law,“ said Jeffrey S. Klein in a statement. „The defendant`s affirmative defenses and counterclaims that the plaintiff was not a student-athlete are not based on substantial factual allegations, but on a legal conclusion that runs counter to their own pleadings and attachments to their pleadings,“ Biggs wrote. „While the defendants claim that their pleadings clearly indicate that they are questioning the plaintiff`s status as a student-athlete at the time of the agreement, this allegation is in direct contradiction to their admission that the plaintiff was actively engaged in intercollegiate sport – namely men`s basketball – which is one of the ways in which the UAAA provides that a person may be considered a student-athlete. The court is not required to start from the veracity of claims or legal conclusions, as they are presented in the form of factual claims. A federal judge in North Carolina has given Zion Williamson a partial verdict in his lawsuit against a former marketing agent who sued the New Orleans Pelicans star for $100 million in damages and demanded a breach of contract.

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