STATE COLLEGE, Pa.— Michigan filed an emergency temporary restraining order against the Big Ten on Friday evening, seeking to prevent the conference from suspending coach Jim Harbaugh on the eve of the Wolverines’ biggest game of the year, against Penn State.
It is the latest escalation in a high-stakes battle between the school and the league it has been a member of since 1896.
Harbaugh is a co-plaintiff in the case, along with the board of regents of the university, according to online case records. The defendants are the Big Ten conference and its commissioner, Tony Petitti. The motion was filed in state district court in Washtenaw County, where Ann Arbor is located.
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