Athletes at Iowa and Iowa State filed a lawsuit Friday regarding an alleged violation of rights in the state’s gambling investigation. Multiple athletes were at the center of the inquiry and lost their eligibility as a result.
The lawsuit includes 26 athletes – 16 from Iowa and nine from Iowa State, along with one more from a local community college – argued investigators violated constitutional rights by using a geolocation software to track their cell phone activity. According to the lawsuit, the question is whether a search warrant was necessary to conduct such a search.
“The lives of these young men have been disrupted and altered in way[s] still yet to be fully seen,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a statement, via ESPN. “It is our hope that through the civil action we can help these young men put their lives back on track and gain a measure of justice for the violation of their rights.”
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