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A lawsuit accuses the University of North Carolina and its board of trustees of illegally hiring head football coach Bill Belichick behind closed doors in December.

Former UNC Provost Chris Clemens and lawyer David McKenzie filed the lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court, and it alleges Belichick’s hiring is one of many instances in which closed sessions occurred at the public university.

The lawsuit points to an alleged "pattern and practice" at UNC to conceal "matters of grave public concern behind closed doors." One of those matters includes potential conference realignment.

Clemens also alleges that he was punished after "leaking closed-session information" to faculty members about a meeting with tenure deferral a

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