A federal judge from the Eastern District of Missouri has denied a boxer’s bid to pursue an insurance claim in state court, finding that he “fraudulently joined” the promoters to the suit in a bid to keep the case in Missouri. Specifically, the plaintiff, Fernando...
A federal judge from the Middle District of Tennessee has granted former New Orleans Saints Quarterback Adrian McPherson’s request to have his claim remanded back to state court in a case where McPherson sued the Tennessee Titans for negligence after he suffered a...
A federal judge has dismissed the claim of a homeowner, who had argued that several golfers violated his civil rights, trespassed and destroyed personal property when they entered his property to retrieve their respective golf balls. The judge’s ruling centered...
A Pennsylvania state court judge has denied a school district’s motion for summary judgment in a case where a student-athlete sued the district after he stepped in a hole on the football field and injured his knee. Specifically, Judge Joseph Augello found that...
A high school football player, who had been suspended for two games for unsportsmanlike behavior, will have to serve that suspension after all, in light of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma’s ruling last month vacating an injunction that had lifted that suspension. ...
A Colorado state court judge has dismissed the claim of a professional hockey player, who had sued another hockey player over a hit on the ice that broke his neck. Denver District Judge Shelley Gilman held specifically that former Colorado Avalanche forward...
The organizer of an LPGA golf tournament will not be drawn into a California lawsuit after a state appeals court affirmed an order granting a motion to quash service for lack of personal jurisdiction. “(S)ubstantial evidence supports the trial...
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a holding by a federal court in Illinois that that court does not have jurisdiction in a case where a former student-athlete sued her coach and Miami University of Ohio for negligence associated with an injury she...
A Texas appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to grant a temporary injunction, reversing the decision of the state’s high school athletic association, which had found two student-athletes ineligible because they had moved from one school district to...
A Florida appeals court has concluded that a trial court erred when it granted a temporary injunction to a suspended student athlete and his high school, which allowed the student-athlete to continue playing football for the school. In a key finding, the...
A Pennsylvania state court has declined to intervene in a decision made by the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission, which barred a jockey from participating at a Pennsylvania race track because he allegedly used a device known as a “machine” or “battery,” which...
Athletic conferences can be viewed as state agencies for jurisdictional purposes where the conference members are state universities or colleges that pay dues “to finance” the business of the conference, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled. The...
