By Jordan S. Azcue Mark Storm, 61, was a physical education teacher and boys’ basketball coach for over 30 years of success at Honeoye Central High School (N.Y.) until parental complaints led to his departure. Specifically, Storm was accused of being a...
An Indiana state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a principal’s faulty investigation of one of his coaches, who had an altercation with a player, did not meet the necessary threshold to impute liability against the principal and other defendants...
By Shawn Schatzle, of Havkins Rosenfeld, Ritzert & Varriale Jim Turner, former offensive line coach for the Miami Dolphins, recently commenced a defamation action against attorney Ted Wells in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida....
By Jeff Birren The NCAA is a private association that conducts large-scale business in the United States. It seeks the protection of American law, yet when challenged, the NCAA reverts to a posture that suggests it is either above the law, or apart from it....
Anthony Rotondi filed a lawsuit last month in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York against The Madison Square Garden Company (MSG), related to his ejection from a New York Knicks basketball game last year. The suit accuses MSG of defamation,...
A Texas appeals court denied the appeal of former Texas Tech University football coach Mike Leach. Leach had appealed a trial court’s decision from a year ago, which granted summary judgment to Spaeth Communications, Inc., ESPN, and college football analyst...
Mitch Williams, former Major League Baseball pitcher and television broadcaster, has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden County, against MLB Network, and the publisher of the sports website Deadspin.com, Gawker Media LLC and Gawker Media Group,...
By Rodger R. Cole and Sean Wikner, of Fenwick & West LLP On August 21, 2013, the Seventh Circuit in Pippen v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, et al. (Case No. 12-3294) affirmed the Northern District of Illinois’ dismissal of Scottie Pippen’s defamation lawsuit...
University of Maryland basketball standout Dez Wells has sued the school he originally played for, Xavier University, claiming that it essentially blackballed him for a crime he did not commit, leading to his expulsion from the school and ongoing heckling from fans...
A California state appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a lower court, dismissing the claim of a man who sued the NCAA after he was implicated in an infractions report for providing unauthorized benefits to a University of Southern California (USC) student...
A Wisconsin state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that sided with a Major League Baseball team and a broadcaster in a case where the two were sued for defamation and invasion of privacy by a fan. In 2006, plaintiff Ann E. Ladd was accused of...
A federal judge has given new life to a defamation claim brought by a student athlete against a coach, who allegedly ostracized the student athlete from the Central Michigan University basketball team because she was heterosexual. While the court gave plaintiff...