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Thousands of students and fans packed Flavet Field on the University of Florida campus to welcome the team home from the Final Four in San Antonio.
Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit against Florida coach Billy Napier, booster Hugh Hathcock, and former staff member Marcus Castro-Walker over a broken NIL deal will proceed.A Pensacola judge dismissed some claims but allowed others related to fraud and vicarious liability to move forward.Rashada alleges he was fraudulently induced to sign with Florida based on promises of a $13.8 million NIL deal that fell apart.
A U.S. District Court judge in Pensacola denied motions to dismiss all counts of a lawsuit against Florida football coach Billy Napier, former Florida Gators football staff member Marcus Castro-Walker and booster Hugh Hathcock filed by former Arizona State and Georgia quarterback Jaden Rashada.
Rashada sued filed the suit against Napier, Hathcock and Castro-Walker in May of 2024, claiming he was defrauded in being enticed to sign with UF over promises of the $13.8 million deal being carried out. It also lists Hathcock’s company, Velocity Automotive, as a defendant. Rashada, a five-star quarterback recruit from Pittsburg, Calif., signed with UF in December of 2022 but was granted release from the National Letter of Intent a month later and moved on to Arizona State.
In the 40-page ruling, U.S. District Court judge M. Casey Rodgers dismissed counts of tortious interference and one count of civil conspiracy, but considered Rashada’s claims of fraud and vicarious liability as valid.
“The surrounding circumstances alleged in the amended complaint readily allow for the inference that each defendant had actual knowledge of the putative fraud,” Rodgers wrote in his ruling.
The Rule 18 hearing is scheduled for April 23 as…
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