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November 27, 2024
City Golf Course Exempt From Property Tax, Fla. Justices Say
A municipal golf course in Florida is exempt from property taxes despite a management agreement with a for-profit company, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, reversing an appeals court decision.
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November 27, 2024
9th Circ. Won't Rethink Revival Of Swimmers' Antitrust Suit
The Ninth Circuit has refused to reconsider a decision reinstating a pair of lawsuits brought by a trio of swimmers and the International Swimming League claiming a boycott by swimming's international governing body violated antitrust law.
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November 27, 2024
How Linda McMahon As Dept. Of Ed Head May Impact Sports
World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder and former CEO Linda McMahon could affect the sports world in a number of ways if confirmed as Secretary of Education, with legal experts watching areas like Title IX policy and whether she'll get involved in ongoing litigation involving the NCAA.
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November 27, 2024
JD Sports Completes €520M Deal For French Footwear Biz
JD Sports Fashion PLC said Wednesday that it has finalized the €520 million ($546 million) acquisition of French footwear company Groupe Courir SAS, after the European Union addressed competition concerns.
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November 26, 2024
Warner Bros. Hit With Investor Suit Over Failed NBA Deal
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. investors Monday filed a proposed class action claiming that the entertainment company and its top brass made false and misleading statements about how negotiations with the NBA were really going and the state of its overall business and financial prospects.
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November 26, 2024
FIFA Must Face Puerto Rico Antitrust Claims, But Not Fraud
FIFA, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association all must face claims that they tried to block soccer rivals in Puerto Rico, after an island federal judge held that FIFA, like its co-defendants, can only nix fraud claims but not antitrust allegations.
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November 26, 2024
10th Circ. Spikes Bid To Block Trans Athlete From Tourney
A pair of Tenth Circuit judges on Tuesday denied an emergency motion by female volleyball players to block a San Jose State University transgender athlete from competing in a tournament that begins Wednesday, agreeing with a Colorado federal judge's conclusion that the lawsuit's tardiness undermines the request for such quick relief.
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November 26, 2024
Judge Heads Off Misleading Solicitation In NCAA NIL Deal
The California federal judge overseeing the NCAA name, image and likeness class action that is nearing closure issued guidelines Tuesday for third-party servicing companies offering to help student athletes secure their portion of a preliminarily approved $2.78 billion settlement.
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November 26, 2024
NC Basketball Scout Admits To Role In COVID Funds Scheme
A North Carolina basketball scout has pled guilty to participating in a COVID-19 relief funds scam that prosecutors say netted him $300,000, the latest of more than 30 guilty pleas from the nationwide scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program.
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November 26, 2024
Pac-12 Agreed To 'Poaching' Clause, Mountain West Insists
The Pac-12 Conference "unconditionally" agreed to all of last year's scheduling agreement with the Mountain West Conference, including a multimillion-dollar "poaching penalty,'' Mountain West claimed in California federal court, pushing back at the Pac-12's argument that the fee for luring away five teams is illegal.
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November 26, 2024
MLBPA, FanDuel Ink Licensing Deal After Settling Legal Spat
The Major League Baseball Players Association, FanDuel and OneTeam Partners on Tuesday announced that they are teaming up on a product and marketing licensing agreement, a move that comes just weeks after FanDuel was dropped from an MLBPA lawsuit over the alleged use of players' photos to promote sports gambling.
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November 26, 2024
DraftKings Engineer Says Leave Request Led To Firing
A former DraftKings engineer alleges the sports betting company fired him after he requested parental leave despite positive reviews, violating the Family and Medical Leave Act, according to a lawsuit removed to Massachusetts federal court.
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November 26, 2024
DraftKings Wants Damages In NFLPA's Licensing Suit Axed
DraftKings Inc. wants partially tossed a suit launched by the NFL Players Association alleging the sports betting giant failed to make good on a licensing agreement related to nonfungible tokens, saying that the players are not entitled to any damages but that as a threshold matter, the maximum potential damages should be capped.
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November 25, 2024
Conn. Athlete Training Firm Ends Feud With Ohio Ex-Worker
A Connecticut company that orchestrates military-style team-building events for corporations and university athletic teams on Monday settled a short-lived employment lawsuit with an Ohio man it had accused of attempting to poach or meddle with its collegiate accounts in at least seven states.
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November 25, 2024
Judge Bemoans 'Chaotic' Contracts In Jack Nicklaus IP Case
The New York state judge presiding over golf legend Jack Nicklaus' intellectual property lawsuit on Monday signaled he may not be able to untangle a set of contradictory contracts, which could lead to a trial over who can use the "Golden Bear's" name and likeness.
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November 25, 2024
Colo. Judge Won't Keep SJSU Trans Athlete From Tournament
A Colorado federal judge on Monday refused to prohibit a San Jose State University transgender volleyball athlete from competing, shutting down a bid from a group of female players in the sport hoping to secure a preliminary injunction against the Mountain West Conference.
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November 25, 2024
Kalshi's Election Contracts Are Here To Stay, DC Circ. Told
Prediction market advocates and legal scholars have told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission stretched existing statutes too far in its bid to block KalshiEx's election wagering market, and now that the votes are in, the agency's concerns that the markets would threaten election integrity have not borne out.
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November 25, 2024
Stolen Hitler Question Suit Barred By Immunity, MSU Says
Michigan State University said it's immune from claims that it used a trivia quiz containing a question about Adolf Hitler without the creator's permission during a sold-out rivalry football game, which sparked negative publicity for the creator and his company.
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November 25, 2024
Final Buzzer Sounds On NBA Fraud Case With Doc's Sentence
A Manhattan federal judge hit a Seattle-area doctor with five years in prison Monday for joining with the ringleader of the NBA's $5 million health billing fraud ring to submit fake invoices, the final sentencing in the sprawling case.
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November 25, 2024
Wrongful Death Suit Paused As NCAA, Family Talk Deal
A U.S. magistrate judge has agreed to pause for the second time a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the NCAA from the family of a late football player who was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy after his death in 2018, giving the parties additional time to work toward a settlement.
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November 25, 2024
Topgolf Cuts Deal To Settle Server's Wage Suit
Topgolf agreed to pay about $13,000 to settle a former food service worker's suit in Alabama federal court claiming it failed to pay her the full minimum wage for non-tip-generating work.
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November 22, 2024
Ex-NFL Player Scott Turner Picked For Trump's HUD Secretary
Donald Trump announced Friday that he nominated retired NFL player and former executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Scott Turner to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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November 22, 2024
Class Attys Ask Court For 28% Of $2.2M Bowling Settlement
Class attorneys in the now-settled legal fight over Bowl America's merger with Bowlero Corp. are requesting fees representing 28% of the proposed $2.2 million deal to end the litigation, which is nearing final approval.
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November 22, 2024
Sports Website Sued For Using Photographer's NBA Star Pic
A photography business is accusing a sports content website of using its picture of New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson without permission, saying the website infringed copyrights in a complaint filed in New York federal court Friday.
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November 22, 2024
NJ Hoops League Settles Suit Over Black Father's Treatment
A New Jersey man and the municipal children's recreational basketball league he sued over allegations it didn't penalize white individuals involved in a spat over a coach's conduct that got him banned from attending his children's games have resolved their dispute, according to a letter.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
5th Circ. NFL Disability Ruling Turns ERISA On Its Head
The Fifth Circuit's March 15 ruling in Cloud v. NFL Player Retirement Plan upheld the plan's finding that an NFL player was not entitled to reclassification because he couldn't show changed circumstances, which is contrary to the goal of accurate Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims processing, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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Opinion
Judicial Independence Is Imperative This Election Year
As the next election nears, the judges involved in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump increasingly face political pressures and threats of violence — revealing the urgent need to safeguard judicial independence and uphold the rule of law, says Benes Aldana at the National Judicial College.
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Document Retention Best Practices To Lower Litigation Risks
As new technologies emerge and terabytes of data can be within the purview of a single discovery request, businesses small and large should take four document management steps to effectively minimize risks of litigation and discovery sanctions long before litigation ensues, says Kimbrilee Weber at Norris McLaughlin.
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Series
Riding My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Using the Peloton platform for cycling, running, rowing and more taught me that fostering a mind-body connection will not only benefit you physically and emotionally, but also inspire stamina, focus, discipline and empathy in your legal career, says Christopher Ward at Polsinelli.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: March Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four notable circuit court decisions on topics from consumer fraud to employment — and provides key takeaways for counsel on issues including coercive communications with putative class members and Article III standing at the class certification stage.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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What The NIL Negotiation Rules Injunction Means For NCAA
A Tennessee federal court's recent preliminary injunction reverses several prominent and well-established NCAA rules on negotiations with student-athletes over name, image and likeness compensation and shows that collegiate athletics is a profoundly unsettled legal environment, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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What Recent Study Shows About AI's Promise For Legal Tasks
Amid both skepticism and excitement about the promise of generative artificial intelligence in legal contexts, the first randomized controlled trial studying its impact on basic lawyering tasks shows mixed but promising results, and underscores the need for attorneys to proactively engage with AI, says Daniel Schwarcz at University of Minnesota Law School.
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2026 World Cup: Companies Face Labor Challenges And More
Companies sponsoring or otherwise involved with the 2026 FIFA World Cup — hosted jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico — should be proactive in preparing to navigate many legal considerations in immigration, labor management and multijurisdictional workforces surrounding the event, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Golf Course Copyright Bill Implications Go Beyond The Green
A new federal bill, the BIRDIE Act, introduced in February would extend intellectual property protections to golf course designers but could undercut existing IP case law and raise broader questions about the scope of copyright protection for works that involve living elements or nonhuman authorship, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Litigation Inspiration: A Source Of Untapped Fulfillment
As increasing numbers of attorneys struggle with stress and mental health issues, business litigators can find protection against burnout by remembering their important role in society — because fulfillment in one’s work isn’t just reserved for public interest lawyers, say Bennett Rawicki and Peter Bigelow at Hilgers Graben.
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The Taylor Swift Effect: Leveraging IP Thresholds In Ads
The Cetaphil #GameTimeGlow commercial, which aired before the Super Bowl, has garnered attention for its indirect use of Taylor Swift-related symbols that were easily spotted by fans — sparking questions about the legality of nodding to the iconic pop star without violating intellectual property rights, say attorneys at Brooks Kushman.
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Series
Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
A lifetime of skiing has helped me develop important professional skills, and taught me that embracing challenges with a spirit of adventure can allow lawyers to push boundaries, expand their capabilities and ultimately excel in their careers, says Andrea Przybysz at Tucker Ellis.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Forget Everything You Know About IRAC
The mode of legal reasoning most students learn in law school, often called “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” or IRAC, erroneously frames analysis as a separate, discrete step, resulting in disorganized briefs and untold obfuscation — but the fix is pretty simple, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Opinion
There Is No NCAA Supremacy Clause, Especially For NIL
A recent Tennessee federal court ruling illustrates the NCAA's problematic position that its member schools should violate state law rather than its rules — and the organization's legal history with the dormant commerce clause raises a fundamental constitutional issue that will have to be resolved before attorneys can navigate NIL with confidence, says Patrick O’Donnell at HWG.