Terrell Owens didn’t exactly have the smoothest return to college this weekend.
The NFL legend was served with a federal lawsuit at an event in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Sunday while he was in town for his alma mater UT Chattanooga’s homecoming weekend.
Video shared by attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik shows a process server approached Owens as he was at what appeared to be a meet-and-greet with fans.
The man could be seen in the footage handing off the paperwork to Owens before he left the area. Owens then took the documents, gave them a once over and put them on a table before he returned to his event, according to the video.
“Terrell Owens,” Paltzik wrote in a caption on the clip that he shared to his X page, “you’ve been served.”
Paltzik, alongside lawyer Jarrett Tyler Cox, is representing three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager who died after he went missing in Mississippi during a Fourth of July party over the summer, in their federal defamation case against the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
In a complaint filed on Oct. 5 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Paltzik and Cox wrote that Owens defamed their clients on social media as outrage over the Wells case peaked earlier this year.
The lawsuit stated that Owens, in a post on X, linked to an Instagram video that contained an unfounded theory that the trio of friends were responsible for Wells’ death. Owens wrote in a caption on the post, “ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!,” according to the lawsuit.
Paltzik blasted Owens for the social media behavior in a statement just after he and Cox opened the federal case against the ex-49ers superstar.
“Not only is he defaming them,” Paltzik said, “he’s basically saying to the mob, get your pitchforks, get your torches.”
Owens’ Instagram behavior on Sunday seemed to show he was not too bothered by the situation, as he shared a video from a UT Chattanooga basketball game before he re-posted another user’s video with the caption, “It’s still Justice for Nolan Wells.”
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