Lawsuit allegations made against Dave Hart
1997: Florida State women's basketball coach Christianne Gobrecht accused the university and Hart of gender discrimination in a federal lawsuit for failing to fund men's and women's teams equitably, maintaining worse facilities for women's teams and treating female coaches and athletes differently than men's athletes. FSU reached a settlement agreement with Gobrecht.
2011: Former University of Alabama cheerleading coach Debbie Greenwell accused Hart and the university of retaliating against her for seeking equitable pay for female coaches. Greenwell was later charged with embezzling funds from the cheerleading squad, and her suit was dismissed.
2012: Debby Jennings, a former Tennessee associate athletics director for media relations, accused Hart and the university of gender discrimination in a federal lawsuit. Jennings later settled for $320,000.
2012: Three former Tennessee women's athletics department staffers filed a federal lawsuit accusing Hart and the university of gender discrimination for firing a disproportionate number of female staffers during the department's reorganization and for giving higher-paying jobs to less-qualified male counterparts from the men's athletics department. The suit is slated for trial in June.