Mar 11, 2022
By Brianna Rodriguez, GW Law, 2L (The following appeared in Esports and the Law, a newsletter produced by Hackney Publications.) In April of 2021, Wolfire Games, the developer of the action video game Overgrowth, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Valve Corporation,...
Nov 5, 2021
By Jason A. Young, MA & Michael S. Carroll, PhD On July 21, 2021, United States District Court Judge Valerie Caproni dismissed a case against U.S. Soccer and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) alleging that the organizations had conspired...
May 7, 2021
By Takao Ohashi, Attorney-at-law in Japan In the United States, professional baseball players are protected by labor and antitrust laws. In Japan, professional baseball players are recognized as employees and the Professional Baseball Players’ Association of...
Mar 26, 2021
The law firm Gibson Dunn recently filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of the Players Associations of the NFL, NBA, WNBA, National Women’s Soccer League, and the Collegiate Association supporting college players in their appeal challenging the NCAA’s restrictions on...
Mar 26, 2021
By Nicholas A. Plinio and Gregg E. Clifton , of Jackson Lewis The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it would allow the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to become an additional presenter during the landmark case, NCAA v. Alston, which is set for oral argument on...
Mar 12, 2021
By Rob Harris Almost three and a half years ago, a Texas federal court denied SureShot’s claim that TopGolf’s acquisition of the Protracer technology constituted an antitrust violation in that it threatened SureShot’s ability to utilize this technology, thereby...
Dec 18, 2020
By Tim LaComb, of MoginRubin LLP (Editor’s note: In October, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Michigan granted the plaintiff’s motion to amend the lawsuit. This article examines the claims made in the litigation.) Mayfield Athletics, maker of a football...
Oct 23, 2020
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Relevant Sports, LLC. (“Relevant”) provides advertising and marketing services and is owned by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. Its website proclaims that it is “The Premier Soccer Events and Media Company in North America and...
Sep 11, 2020
By Robert E. Freeman, Jonathan Mollod, Melissa Felcher, of Proskauer In the most recent face-off between ice rink operator Black Bear Sports Group, Inc. (“Black Bear”) and affiliate regulator Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois (“AHA”...
Aug 28, 2020
By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM The defensive coordinator at Clemson University earns upwards of $2.2 million a year for developing the team’s defensive game plan, overseeing position coaches, and calling the defensive plays during a game.[1] On the other side of...
Jul 17, 2020
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer These pages have followed the consolidated cases that include Shawne Alston v. NCAA et al, and In re National Collegiate Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation (“Alston”). The NCAA lost in the District Court and the Ninth...
Jul 17, 2020
By Timothy LaComb, of MoginRubin LLP For the second time, the Raiders relocated from Oakland, California to a warmer city 400 miles away. The Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982 and, after returning in 1995, moved from Oakland to Las Vegas a few...
