By Jordan Kobritz Buried on page 1,967 of a 2,232-page federal spending bill passed in March 2018 was a provision titled “Save America’s Pastime Act.” It exempts Minor League Baseball (MiLB) players from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which essentially...
By Michael A. Ross, MS On September 20, 2020, multiple Division I athletic directors signed a pledge to diversify the hiring pools within their respective programs. This pledge is designed to further promote quality existing platforms such as the Rooney Rule...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Dent plaintiffs are nine former NFL players who seek to represent a class that played between 1969 and 2014. They sued the NFL in 2014, and “allegedly suffered injury from what they claim was a ‘return to play’ business plan...
A federal judge from the Middle District of Florida has granted, in part, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), Inc.’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint of a high school student-athlete, who claimed he was discriminated against based on his...
By John Miller, Ph.D. Damian Phillips submitted complaints against the Loudon County Public Schools and School Board alleging race and disability discrimination as well as retaliation (Phillips v. Loudoun Cty. Pub. Schs, 2020). Phillips is an African-American...
By Alec F. Cerqueira, of Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Two former NFL players recently filed a federal class action complaint in the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. against the National Football League, the National Football League...
By Gregg E. Clifton & Andrew M. Gaggin, of Jackson Lewis P.C. Despite the ongoing changes to the workplace in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing remains unchanged: federal EEO laws and their role in the workplace. As colleges and...
A former women’s assistant basketball coach at UC Riverside (UCR) has sued the university, claiming that she wasn’t promoted to head coach, as promised, because she participated in the investigation of the former head coach. Plaintiff Giuliana Mendiola, who...
By Phillip Movaghar & Jeff Birren It is unlikely that Congress had healthy white males in mind when it passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For Joseph Marino, a white male who coaches girls’ high school basketball, that Act has kept his claims alive. Marino...
By Gina Antoniello, M.S. In October 2019, 27-year-old American fighter Patrick Day willingly climbed through the ropes and into the squared circle of a boxing ring. During his match with Charles Conwell, Day was knocked out and remained on the mat for several...
By Patrick L. Egan, of Jackson Lewis A federal judge has dismissed the Equal Pay Act (EPA) claims filed by 28 members of the U.S. Senior Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), finding the WNT players were actually...
By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Contributor & Professor, Sport Management, Drexel University, ejs95@drexel.edu[5] The complaint is damning in its allegations. Reports of a male head softball coach at a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)...
