Louisiana Judge Temporarily Blocks the SEC from Sanctioning LSU for Playing Ex-Pro R.J. Luis Jr. – Bleacher Report

Louisiana Judge Temporarily Blocks the SEC from Sanctioning LSU for Playing Ex-Pro R.J. Luis Jr.  Bleacher Report

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge has granted a request by lawyers for RJ Luis Jr. — who was briefly under contract with two NBA teams but never played in a game — to temporarily block the Southeastern Conference from punishing LSU if Luis is added to the Tigers' roster. The order on Wednesday by state district Judge Ronald R. Johnson in East Baton Rouge Parish also blocks LSU from using SEC policies as a reason for declining to play Luis. The injunction takes effect on Nov. 3, the day of LSU's regular-season opener against LSU-New Orleans, and lasts until Nov. 13, when Johnson has scheduled a hearing on the matter and ordered SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, as well as LSU officials, to appear.

Johnson's ruling came a day after Luis' lawyers — Elliot Abrams of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Tony Clayton of Port Allen, Louisiana (in suburban Baton Rouge) — requested an expansion of a preliminary injunction against the NCAA that Johnson issued in late August. The NCAA has argued that Luis should be ineligible because he did not properly withdraw from the 2025 NBA Draft. While the SEC did not immediately comment on Wednesday's ruling, the conference has accused LSU in a related federal case of exhibiting an "ongoing defiance of the conference's professionalism rules" by