{"id":912611,"date":"2026-11-10T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912611\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:28:25","slug":"terrell-owens-blindsided-by-nolan-wells-lawsuit-stunt-in-middle-of-college-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912611\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrell Owens blindsided by Nolan Wells lawsuit stunt in middle of college event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terrell Owens didn\u2019t exactly have the smoothest return to college this weekend.<\/p>\n

The NFL legend was served with a federal lawsuit<\/a> at an event in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Sunday while he was in town for his alma mater UT Chattanooga\u2019s homecoming weekend.<\/p>\n

Video shared by attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik shows a process server approached Owens as he was at what appeared to be a meet-and-greet with fans.<\/p>\n

The man could be seen in the footage handing off the paperwork to Owens before he left the area. Owens then took the documents, gave them a once over and put them on a table before he returned to his event, according to the video.<\/p>\n

\"TerrellTerrell Owens is served papers by a process server during his return to UT Chattanooga. X\/@EdPaltzik<\/p>\n

\u201cTerrell Owens,\u201d Paltzik wrote in a caption on the clip that he shared to his X page, \u201cyou\u2019ve been served.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paltzik, alongside lawyer Jarrett Tyler Cox, is representing three friends of Nolan Wells<\/a>, a Black teenager who died after he went missing in Mississippi during a Fourth of July party over the summer, in their federal defamation case against the Pro Football Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

In a complaint filed on Oct. 5 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Paltzik and Cox wrote that Owens defamed their clients on social media as outrage over the Wells case<\/a> peaked earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Francisco 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens (81) runs with the ball against the New Orleans Saints at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Sept. 14, 1997. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The lawsuit stated that Owens, in a post on X, linked to an Instagram video that contained an unfounded theory that the trio of friends were responsible for Wells\u2019 death. Owens wrote in a caption on the post, \u201cARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!,\u201d according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Paltzik blasted Owens for the social media behavior in a statement just after he and Cox opened the federal case against the ex-49ers superstar.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is he defaming them,\u201d Paltzik said, \u201che\u2019s basically saying to the mob, get your pitchforks, get your torches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owens\u2019 Instagram behavior on Sunday seemed to show he was not too bothered by the situation, as he shared a video from a UT Chattanooga basketball game before he re-posted another user\u2019s video with the caption, \u201cIt\u2019s still Justice for Nolan Wells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terrell Owens didn\u2019t exactly have the smoothest return to college this weekend. The NFL legend was served with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2356,349,560,99,1625,73118],"class_list":["post-912611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-california","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-terrell-owens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}