Former UCLA Basketball Player Gets Relief from Appeals Court

A California appeals court has reversed a trial court, giving new life to the claim of a former UCLA basketball player, who sued Time Inc., the parent company of Sports Illustrated, over a highly critical expose the magazine wrote about the UCLA program, which portrayed the player as the “ringleader.”   In essence, the panel of judges found that a jury should be left to decide some of the alleged facts in the case, not the judge.   The article in question, which was published on Ma