When an en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court ruled in April 2014 that the consent decree the NCAA levied against Penn State, which included a $60 million penalty, might not have been properly entered into, the lead attorney in the case knew he was about to be slammed with discovery demands.
Up until that point, the focus of the case Conrad O’Brien attorney Matthew Haverstick was handling, Corman v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, was on whether the Institution of Higher Education Monetary Penalty Endowment Act was constitutional. But with the ruling, the consent decree itself, which not only imposed a $60 million penalty against the school but also various sports-related sanctions, was now at issue.
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