By Eric Chang and Dylan F. Henry, of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP (The following appeared in Sports Medicine and the Law) Round 1- The Facts On November 2, 2013, heavyweight boxer, Magomed Abdusalamov, stepped into the ring at...
By Ellen M. Zavian, Esq., sports law professor at GW Law and editor in chief of Esports and the Law It took a great deal of guts for Turner “Tfue” Tenney to sue his former employer, FaZe, over breach of contract and violation of the California Talent Agency...
By Jordan Kobritz The coronavirus has brought live sporting events to a halt, and no one can predict when the games will return. For now, the major leagues’ position is games are “postponed” and will be played sometime later this year. But even if that’s...
A group of disgruntled ticket holders have sued Major League Baseball (MLB), upset that they were denied refunds for the 2020 season. On March 12, MLB cancelled the remainder of Spring Training and postponed the start of the baseball season by two weeks due to...
By Phillip Movaghar & Jeff Birren On May 2, 2015 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. met and defeated Manny Pacquiao in one of the most commercially successful boxing matches of all time. The fight took place at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Tickets cost between...
A North Carolina appeals court has affirmed a trial court’s ruling dismissing the claim of a former girls’ varsity basketball coach at Carolina Day School, Inc. (CDS), who had alleged that his employer’s decision not to renew an employee’s employment contract...
Oregon State University (OSU) has sued its former athletic director, Todd Stansbury, for breach of contract. Specifically, OSU alleged in Benton County Circuit Court that when Stansbury signed a five-year contract with the university in June 2015, he was...
By Eric G. Kramer and Michael S. Carroll Boise State University (BSU) has filed a complaint against the Mountain West Conference (MWC) claiming the conference violated the terms of their Re-Entry Agreement, which was executed in December 2012. The complaint was...
By Daniel A. Cohen and Jeff Daniel, of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP On Nov. 18, 2019, the Board of Trustees for the University of Arkansas (“UA”) filed a lawsuit against former defensive line position coach John Scott, Jr., seeking to recover...
Perhaps emboldened by a federal judge’s decision last summer to deny the University of Kansas’ motion to dismiss his breach of contract lawsuit, former University of Kansas head football coach David Beaty recently filed his own motion for summary judgment against the...
A Montana state court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a former women’s soccer coach at the University of Montana (UM), finding that the coach had not exhausted the remedies available to him in his contract before filing the claim in the courts as...
A federal judge from the Middle District of Tennessee has denied a sports agency’s motion for summary judgment in a case in which a professional golfer and the sports agency that previously represented him became entangled in a legal dispute after the golfer left the...
