UPDATED | YSU appeals order allowing Ohio man to play football



Published September 15, 2017 at 11:36 a.m.
Updated September 15, 2017 at 12:40 p.m.

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Ma'Lik Richmond Temp Order

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Temporary Restraining Order granted in case no. 4:17-cv-01927 Ma'Lik Richmond vs. Youngstown State University.

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University filed a notice in U.S. District Court that it would appeal Judge Benita Y. Pearson’s ruling granting a temporary restraining order to Ma’lik Richmond.

Pearson ruled that YSU could not forbid Ma’lik from participating in football games for any reason other than a coaching decision made using the same criteria used to judge other players.

Richmond was one of two Steubenville High School football players found delinquent by a juvenile court judge in the highly-publicized 2012 rape case.

The appeal will be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.