The NCAA filed a notice of appeal Wednesday to the Florida Supreme Court regarding a district court application of the Florida open records law to private NCAA documents.

“The NCAA intends to seek all legal remedies associated with this case,” said NCAA spokesman Bob Williams. 

“We feel strongly that our private documents are not subject to public records laws. The enforcement process and indeed the normal course of our business relies on confidentiality to ensure compliance of NCAA rules, as directed by our membership.  At the end of the day we are focused on providing fairness and integrity to intercollegiate athletics, the more than 400,000 student athletes competing in NCAA sports, and the campuses they attend.” 

The Florida District Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that documents related to a Florida State University  investigation into an academic cheating scandal were public records and must be released. FSU released transcripts from an October 2008 hearing on the school’s appeal of the sanctions.

The NCAA efforts in this case are focused on association-created and maintained documents, not on documents produced by individual universities.