Overview

• An amended federal class-action complaint filed Friday adds Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh alongside former Michigan president Santa Ono, athletic director Warde Manuel and dozens of others as defendants.
• The suit alleges that staff reported offensive coordinator Matt Weiss viewing athletes’ private information in December 2022 yet he was allowed to coach in the Fiesta Bowl days later.
• Weiss is separately facing 14 counts of unauthorized computer access and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft for allegedly hacking into the accounts of more than 3,000 student-athletes.
• This lawsuit consolidates one of at least 13 civil cases brought by over 80 female athletes nationwide accusing Weiss and Michigan officials of institutional oversight failures.
• Harbaugh has denied prior knowledge of Weiss’s actions and called the allegations shocking as the case tests legal accountability for sports leaders over data privacy breaches.