The hiring of Bill Belichick has become a key aspect of a new lawsuit.

Via Amanda Christovich of FrontOfficeSports.com, former North Carolina provost Chris Clemens alleges violations of the state’s open meeting laws by the university’s board of trustees on multiple occasions, including the Belichick hire .

From page nine of the civil complaint: “The Board called an ‘emergency meeting’ with minimal notice, then immediately entered closed session to approve hiring a high-profile football coach whose compensation package and entire hiring was already public. The Board’s perfunctory return to open session for a rubber-stamp vote demonstrates that substantive deliberation occurred in secret.”

The lawsuit also alleges that the board resorted to a closed session at least twice to discuss c

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