Judge tosses fraud suit against Lane Kiffin involving former Alabama WR
By Keith Farner
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An Alabama judge has thrown out a fraud suit filed against Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin.
With information from the Associated Press, AL.com reported that Shelby County Circuit Judge Lara Alvis dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled.
The decision was entered on Oct. 10, according to online court documents, after the suit was filed in March.
Former Alabama receiver Antonio “A.C.” Carter claimed Kiffin and Florida Atlantic offered him a job to get him to help sign a recruit and then failed to follow through on repeated assurances that the job was his.
The suit claimed “Kiffin deliberately misled him regarding a job on the FAU football staff in order to benefit from his family relationship with a prospect.”
Kiffin had spent the past three seasons as Alabama’s’ offensive coordinator.
Carter, who played for three years at Alabama before a leg injury in the spring of 2002, had 106 receptions for 1,294 yards.
Carter served as a graduate assistant under Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban in 2008, left Alabama to be the receivers coach at Appalachian State. He then was a high school coach, wide receivers coach at Eastern Michigan (2009) and Samford (2010-12) and later an Indianapolis Colts intern in 2012.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
