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<p>HARRISBURG &#8212; Late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno&#8217;s family <a href="http://co.centre.pa.us/centreco/media/upload/PATERNO%20VS%20NCAA%20PRAECIPE%20TO%20DISCONTINUE.pdf" target="_blank">dropped a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA</a> over its use of a report in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal to punish Paterno and the university.</p><p>Paterno&#8217;s estate, his son Jay and former assistant William Kenney discontinued their case. The NCAA called it a voluntary decision and said there was no payment involved.</p><p>NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy <a href="http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/paterno-family-abandons-all-claims-against-ncaa" target="_blank">claimed a total victory for his organization</a>, which he said acted reasonably in adopting conclusions from a university-commissioned report authored by a team led by former FBI director Louis Freeh.</p><p>&#8220;The Paterno family characterized this case as a &#8216;search for the truth,&#8217;&#8221; Remy said. &#8220;Its decision today, after years of investigation and discovery, to abandon its lawsuit rather than subject those facts to courtroom examination is telling.&#8221;</p><p>He said the Paterno family wasted time, effort and money in the case. Messages left for the Paternos and their lawyers were not immediately returned.</p><p>The lawsuit had claimed that college sports&#8217; governing body damaged the Paterno estate&#8217;s commercial interests through its use of the Freeh report. Kenney and Jay Paterno alleged the Freeh report rendered them unable to find comparable coaching work.</p><p>The Freeh report concluded Joe Paterno and other administrators hushed up a 2001 complaint against Sandusky showering with a boy, for fear of bad publicity.</p><p>Paterno, who died in early 2012, was never charged criminally, but three others who were at high-ranking jobs when he was coach are expected to soon report to jail to serve criminal sentences for their response to the 2001 complaint.</p><p>Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was convicted in March of misdemeanor child endangerment for his failure to report the complaint about Sandusky apparently sexually abusing a boy on campus. Former athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz had earlier pleaded guilty to the same charge.</p><p>The judge who sentenced Curley, Schultz and Spanier did not spare Paterno, saying he could have called police &#8220;without so much as getting his hands dirty. Why he didn&#8217;t is beyond me.&#8221;</p><p>The three are expected to report to county prison July 15 to serve two or three months.</p><p>The Paterno family and his legion of supporters have long objected bitterly to the Freeh report&#8217;s depiction of the hall of fame coach as having failed to do the right thing in 2001. Sandusky had been one of Joe Paterno&#8217;s top assistants for decades before his 1999 retirement.</p><p>Paterno told a grand jury in 2011 he did not know of child molestation allegations against Sandusky before 2001. But an insurer has alleged, a judge noted in a court document last year, that a child told Paterno in 1976 that Sandusky had molested him, a claim Paterno&#8217;s family has strongly denied.</p><p>Jay Paterno, a Nittany Lions assistant coach for 17 years, was elected by alumni in May to a seat on the Penn State board. He starts as a trustee next month.</p><p>The university removed a statue of Joe Paterno from outside the football stadium in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, and it has not been replaced.</p><p>The NCAA also took away 111 of Paterno&#8217;s wins, but they have since been restored, and with it his status as major college football&#8217;s winningest coach with 409 victories.</p><p>Sandusky was convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys. He maintains his innocence while serving a 30- to 60-year sentence, and is appealing.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">A lawsuit filed by the estate of late Penn State coach Joe Paterno and former assistants Jay Paterno (left) and Bill Kenney against the NCAA was dropped on Friday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/web1_AP_080808067823-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>A lawsuit filed by the estate of late Penn State coach Joe Paterno and former assistants Jay Paterno (left) and Bill Kenney against the NCAA was dropped on Friday. </caption0><photoCredit0>AP file photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mark Scolforo</p><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Paterno family drops lawsuit against NCAA over Freeh report