{"id":43521,"date":"2017-12-15T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43521"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:20:23","slug":"ole-miss-football-retains-butler-snow-law-firm-and-others-to-file-appeal-against-ncaa-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-football-retains-butler-snow-law-firm-and-others-to-file-appeal-against-ncaa-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Football Retains Butler Snow Law Firm and Others to File Appeal Against NCAA Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong> released the following statement to <em>The Local Voice<\/em> today at 11:30am:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Statement Regarding NCAA Appeal and Additions to Legal Team<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Today, the University of Mississippi is submitting to the NCAA written notice of its intent to appeal the Public Infractions Decision Letter of the NCAA Division\u00a0I Committee on Infractions issued December 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The university has also retained the Mississippi-based law firm of Butler Snow to join the existing legal team of Lightfoot, Franklin &amp; White and Bond, Schoeneck &amp; King for the appeal and other related legal services.\u00a0 Don Barrett of the Barrett Law Group will also join the university\u2019s legal team. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have the best legal team in the country to handle our NCAA appeal.\u00a0 We added Mississippi-based firms to further strengthen an already exceptional team so that we are in the best possible position to win this appeal,\u201d stated Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter of the University of Mississippi. \u201cWe believe the additional penalties imposed by the COI are unwarranted, which we will make very clear at the appropriate time in our written submissions on the merits of our appeal.\u201d\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Mississippi released the following statement to The Local Voice today at 11:30am: Statement Regarding NCAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":43522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11357,11361,40,11359,9698,11358,4063,7067,11360,655],"class_list":["post-43521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-butler-snow","tag-don-barrett","tag-football","tag-franklin-white-and-bond","tag-jeffrey-vitter","tag-lightfoot","tag-ncaa","tag-ole-miss","tag-schoeneck-king","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ButlerSnow.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}