Jun 5, 2020
By Christian Dennie In March 2014, while the NCAA was litigating O’Bannon I, FBS football and D1 men’s and women’s basketball players filed several antitrust actions against the NCAA and eleven D1 conferences that were transferred to and, with one exception,...
Apr 10, 2020
By Sungho Cho, Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University, Peter Park, Partner, Sughrue Mion, PLLC, and June Won, Head Golf Professional, Stone Ridge G.C. The sporting goods market is dominated by a small number of multinational firms competing at the...
Jan 17, 2020
A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has sided with the Amateur Hockey Association Illinois (AHAI) in a case in which the league was sued on antitrust grounds when it declined to admit another club, the Reapers Hockey Association, Inc., citing league...
Dec 6, 2019
By Gil Fried, Professor/Chair Sport Management Department, University of New Haven On November 19, 2019 a group of 104 US Congressmen and Congresswomen co-signed a letter sent to Major League Baseball (MLB) urging the league to reconsider their “radical...
Nov 8, 2019
By Jonathan Rubin, Esq., of MoginRubin LLP (Washington, DC) As we noted in Part I (SLA, Vol. 16, Iss. 17), most video game publishers initially did not set out to monetize public exhibition or tournament play of their game titles. But, with the availability of...
Sep 13, 2019
By Jonathan Rubin, Esq., of MoginRubin LLP (Washington, DC) The business of sports poses a dilemma for antitrust law. On the one hand, antitrust discourages, and in some cases outlaws, cooperation among separate and competing business, such as professional...
Jun 21, 2019
A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has dismissed the antitrust claim of a for-profit hockey rink operator and its subsidiary against the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois (Association), finding that it failed to show the requisite injury upon...
Jun 7, 2019
By Robert E. Freeman, Sarah E. Hughes and Jonathan Mollod, of Proskauer After a couple of rounds of litigation, on March 18, 2019, the Supreme Court declined to review an antitrust lawsuit between Topgolf Int’l, Inc. (“Topgolf”), a company...
Mar 15, 2019
By Evelyn A. French , of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Last month, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a proposed settlement in its lawsuit against leading college sports multimedia rights provider...
Mar 15, 2019
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California delivered a partial victory last week to a nationwide class of student athletes, who challenged NCAA-imposed caps on college-athlete scholarships. In granting their request for a...
Sep 28, 2018
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Caddies on the PGA Tour (“PGA”) wear official bibs supplied to them at each PGA tournament. The bibs have the logos of both the tournament and its sponsors on them, with the monies generated by the sponsorships going to...
Sep 14, 2018
By Jeff Birren Gold Medal LLC makes Run Gum chewing gum (“Run Gum”) which contains caffeine, B vitamins and taurine; an amino acid used in energy drinks. Advertising with track and field athletes thus appealed to Run Gum. It therefor sought to...
