Having spent more than 25 years in legal and leadership positions at some of the most prominent companies in the media industry, as well as served as general counsel and chief operating officer of the New York Yankees, David W. Sussman in uniquely qualified to assess...
By Erica J. Zonder Jackson State University’s Head Women’s Basketball coach, Denise Taylor-Travis, was terminated “for cause” in May 2011. She subsequently sued the university for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith, invasion of...
By Jonathan Wynne On May 28, 2020, Brown University announced the transition of 11 varsity sports teams to club status. An internal program called the Excellence Initiative to Reshape Athletics at Brown had been commissioned to improve the University’s...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer. Tough economic times often leads to litigation as companies try to sue their way out of their financial difficulties. In 2020 minor league baseball was shut down by COVID-19, and many teams filed lawsuits against their insurance...
By Robert J. Romano, JD LLM, St. John’s University Jason Peters, one-time coach for the University of Pittsburgh’s wrestling team, had his racial discrimination and breach of contract lawsuit against the University dismissed by a federal court in September 2020....
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer These pages previously discussed the case brought against NBA player Zion Williamson by his short-term marketing agent, Prime Sports Marketing (see, Sports Litigation Alert, “Fired Marketing Agent Sues Zion Williamson,” (2/12/2021)). The...
By John Tyrrell On January 6, 2021, a split panel of The Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida refused to revive a high school soccer player’s negligence lawsuit against the School Board of Broward County (“School Board”) after the trial court...
By Jeff Birren Zion Williamson was born play basketball. Even at an early age, it became obvious that he was going to be a high NBA draft choice and generate millions of dollars. Williamson played at Duke University during the 2018-2019 college season. ...
By Michael A. Ross, MS On January 13, 2020 Isaiah Humphries (Plaintiff) filed an 11-count complaint against The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), James Franklin, also referred to as Franklin (combined with Penn State to be referred to as University...
By Shushan Dai The 30 Major League Baseball clubs along with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB Advanced Media, Inc., The MLB Network, LLC, and Tickets.com, LLC filed a lawsuit to enforce the insurance promises made by their insurers including AIG...
By Jon Heshka, Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University Mountains were formerly thought of as a refuge of scoundrels. From Warren Harding’s iconoclastic first ascent of The Nose on El Cap in Yosemite to Osama Bin Laden hiding in the mountains in eastern...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer CSE Talent, LLC is a sports and media talent representation company. In 2017 CSE began providing services to Ohio high school senior, Nick Northcut, to help Northcut prepare for baseball’s 2018 amateur draft. Northcut was...
