Just ventured over to the Spirit

[Really Clark?]

I remember he missed that SEC media days, and I think the subpoena was coming from a lawsuit from an asst. coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams in a defamation suit.
Lawsuit was dismissed.

They didn't sue Fulmer, it was Tom Culpepper (recruiting analyst) and the NCAA, Paul finebaum, SEC and a host of others. The judge threw out the lawsuit against the NCAA, SEC, Finebaum, etc. and removed Ivy Williams as a plaintiff, in the end it was just defamation that Cottrell went against Culpepper and a jury awarded $30 MIL to them. A few months later the verdict was overturned in what the judge declared the decision bias and severely flawed. Years later in his book the judge described the lawsuit as little more than a hoax and there was no conspiracy to bring down Ivy, Cottrell, and Alabama Football. The Alabama Supreme Court agreed with the judge's decision and the US Supreme denied him to hear an appeal. Cottrell attorney used the local and national media to mislead the Fulmer and Tenn connection which the judge found a lot of shoddy reporting by the media and hiding of documents that showed that Tenn reported to the SEC of issues concerning Means but never mention any other school. The SEC classified it as rumor at the time. Cottrell's attorney also tried withhold evidence to the media that it was Arkansas that reported the violation not Tenn to play up the bias and misleading the public....boy does this playbook not seem familiar right now within our own state.