SWAC wins dismissal of $150M lawsuit filed by Urban Edge Network

The Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) and Commissioner Charles McClelland have secured a pivotal authorized victory in a $150 million lawsuit filed by City Edge Community, Inc. (UEN), in response to a launch revealed by the convention workplace on Tuesday.

The case, which challenged the SWAC’s unique management over its media rights, was partly resolved by an April 21, 2025, arbitration ruling that dismissed all claims filed by City Edge. The corporate had alleged it had the precise to broadcast SWAC athletic occasions, a declare the arbitrator rejected outright.

“UEN has no contractual relationship with SWAC and, as such, no proper to market, promote, or promote promoting, broadcasting, or related rights for SWAC video games or occasions of its member establishments,” the arbitrator wrote within the order.

Along with dismissing these claims, the arbitrator issued a everlasting injunction prohibiting City Edge and its founders, Hardy Pelt and Todd Brown, from making “any additional fraudulent makes an attempt to promote SWAC’s promoting and media rights to 3rd events, in any other case use SWAC’s media, or induce SWAC’s member establishments to breach their agreements with SWAC.”

“It is a important victory for the SWAC, who nonetheless has claims in opposition to City Edge that may proceed to trial,” the assertion added. “City Edge’s dismissed claims embrace the next claims City Edge asserted in opposition to each the SWAC and SWAC’s Commissioner McClelland: tortious interference with contracts, tortious interference with potential contractual and enterprise relations, defamation, and unfair enterprise practices.”