A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled that the claim of a Pennsylvania student, who sued Cornell University after he was tragically injured while attempting a gymnastic maneuver in the Teagle Gymnasium on the Cornell campus, should...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted Cornell University’s motion to dismiss the claim of a Pennsylvania student, who was tragically injured while attempting a gymnastic maneuver on the TumblTrak gymnastics training apparatus in the...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted Cornell University’s motion to dismiss the claim of a Pennsylvania student, who was tragically injured while attempting a gymnastic maneuver on the TumblTrak gymnastics training apparatus in the...
A district court has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a lawsuit back to a state court after the plaintiff, who was seeking a waiver of ineligibility from the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, withdrew his allegation that his rights under the United...
A district court has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a lawsuit back to a state court after the plaintiff, who was seeking a waiver of ineligibility from the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, withdrew his allegation that his rights under the United...
A federal judge has sided with the NCAA in its bid to have a claim brought against it for allegedly employing an illegal ticket distribution scheme moved to its home district, the Southern District of Indiana. Central to the court’s ruling was its belief that a...
A federal judge from the District of New Jersey has let stand a claim of trademark infringement, unfair competition, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment in a dispute between stores that market and sell soccer equipment. The court did, however, grant the...
In a bizarre twist, the Supreme Court of Kentucky has decided not to rule on a student athlete eligibility case after determining that a party failed to recognize a judge’s mistake and follow the proper procedure for challenging the judge’s decision. ...
By Jeffrey B. Tracy* Earlier this year, Major League Baseball and the National Football League were called into Congress to face questioning about incidents that arose within the organizations. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted a college football player’s request to remand his lawsuit back to state court, saying the removal was defective “because several of the defendants are Pennsylvania citizens and because not all...
The Tennessee Titans are no longer a defendant in a lawsuit brought by a Las Vegas strip club employee, who was shot and paralyzed last year in an incident involving the Titans’ Adam “Pacman” Jones. A Clark County (Nevada) District Court Judge agreed with team...
A district judge from the Southern District of Texas has granted the United States Olympic Committee’s emergency motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a claim brought by Taekwondo athlete, who had asked the court to intervene in a “field of play”...
