Fire Lawsuit Over Duke Basketball Tickets

Want to sit here? Prepare for a fight.

It seems the transfer of men's basketball season tickets from a deceased Dukie die hard to his family hasn't gone so smoothly, and now some family members are suing other relatives and the school. This is the sort of lawsuit only a lawyer would love and it should be fired.

John Dorton was a Duke grad and longtime major contributor to the athletic department. His tickets would normally be nontransferable upon his death, except he agreed to pay a whopping $50,000 fee plus an annual contribution of $6,000 (that in and of itself should be fired). One of Dorton's daughters (Katina, another Duke grad) is suing her sister and her sister's husband because she claims they transferred the tickets to themselves without anyone's consent. Katina says her father was ill and incapable of making sound decisions in the last two years of his life and that her sister's husband transferred the tickets to himself before he even married Katina's sister. Katina is also suing the school for allowing this unspeakable tragedy to go down the way it did. Duke had no comment.

To further confuse things, Dorton actually did agree to give the tickets to Katina's sister and her husband, but only after he died. Originally the couple tried to take possession of the tickets while Dorton was still living, which rightfully pissed him off. Katina claims that entire transaction didn't count because Dorton was already mentally diminished by that time.  

At this point hopefully you're thinking - 'wow, what a bunch of selfish, greedy a-holes.' Given their behavior it's hardly a shock that these people would turn to litigation, but rather than suing, can't they just find a way to share the tickets? A lot of people already hate Duke (might have something to do with this and all of this), so a lawsuit over tickets probably isn't exactly going to bolster their image. So hug it out, Dukies, or you're fired.