A federal judge from the District of Colorado has certified a class of hearing-impaired people, who allege that Kroenke Arena Company, LLC, the owner and operator of the Pepsi Center – an indoor arena in Denver, discriminates against patrons in violation of...
By Michael S. Carroll, PhD & Andrew L. Goldsmith, PhD Erin Henderson, who started at the middle linebacker position for the New York Jets this past season, is no longer with the team and is now suing his former employer, alleging wrongful termination and...
A federal judge from the Northern District of California has denied a motion for summary judgment filed by the Forty Niners Football Company, LLC (owner of the San Francisco 49ers) and the City of Santa Clara, which had asked the court to dismiss a claim brought by...
A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has held that the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) was within its rights to deny an accommodation of a disabled athlete, who has cerebral palsy, to compete in the state track meet. While...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana has handed another legal defeat to a former Tulane University football player, who alleged that the school and several individual defendants treated him unfairly when they ran him off the football team. In...
Drake University and its former head athletic trainer are digging in their heels over a brewing legal dispute that centers on whether the school sufficiently accommodated an athletic trainer’s medical condition and subsequently overreacted when it fired him because of...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana has dismissed the claim of a walk-on football player at Tulane University, who alleged that he was chased off the football team because of a disability that required accommodations. However, the judge did leave...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of California has denied respective motion to dismiss, ruling that litigation involving a high school football fan, who sued the owner of a stadium for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), should continue...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Missouri has a denied a high school student’s motion for a preliminary injunction, which would have required the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) to count any points she earned as a para-athlete in...
By Rob Harris Almost as quickly as the political parties drew battle lines over whether the Senate should entertain an election year confirmation of a replacement justice for Antonin Scalia, the golf world began reminiscing about Justice Scalia’s dissent in...
What did the University of Southern California (USC) know and when did it know it? That would seem to be the pivotal question in a December 7 lawsuit brought by former head football coach Steve Sarkisian, which alleges that the university fired him, even though...
In a majority decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court, and ruled that a Towson University football player should not be permitted to return to the football field, despite his recovery from a near-fatal injury and the fact that he...
