{"id":429669,"date":"2026-09-08T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429669\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:22:12","slug":"big-12-files-paperwork-to-drop-lawsuit-against-paxton-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429669\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 files paperwork to drop lawsuit against Paxton, Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DALLAS, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Big 12 has filed paperwork to drop its own lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas Tech, the Texas Tech University System and university leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conference is asking the judge to dismiss the case \u201cwith prejudice,\u201d meaning the Big 12 cannot come back later with the same claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The filing went into federal court in Dallas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conference has not said why it is backing off the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Big 12 has filed paperwork to drop its own lawsuit against Texas Attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[149171,120249,149169,149170,149168,168,170,169,1769],"class_list":["post-429669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-big-12-conference-lawsuit-dropped","tag-big-12-lawsuit","tag-big-12-texas-tech-dismissal","tag-federal-court-dallas","tag-ken-paxton-texas-tech","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}