A federal judge from the Western District of Oklahoma has granted Time Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit of an Oklahoma State booster, who claimed the magazine invaded his privacy by “publicly placing him in a false light” in a series of 2013 articles, entitled...
A Louisiana couple has accused the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), its president, and athletic director for conducting a shoddy investigation and then making and publishing false and defamatory statements about their role in the firing of the school’s...
Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Professor, Sport Management, Drexel University Contributing Writer In November of 2017, six current female students, eight alumnae, and two former head coaches of women’s teams filed a lawsuit against Guilford College (GC) and the...
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court’s dismissal of a defamation suit lawsuit brought by former Miami Dolphins Offensive Line Coach Jim Turner against attorney Ted Wells, who led an investigation on behalf of the NFL into the role...
An Illinois state appeals court affirmed a ruling of summary judgment, finding that the actions of the Chicago Tribune Company did not rise to the level of “actual malice or disregard for the truth” in mistakenly reporting that a former NBA player had committed a...
By Scott A. Andresen Queen Gertrude’s paraphrased line from Hamlet (III, ii, 239) seems a perfect title for this article as it has been used as a figure of speech to indicate that a person’s vehement attempts to convince others of something have...
A California state appeals court has affirmed a ruling that a technology company, which was hired by an auto racing company to build a Website, is protected by the First Amendment when it created a mirror Website, using a fictitious name, that parodied its client....
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...
By Ivan Lancaster A federal judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana has granted the motion to dismiss that was filed by, Roger Goodell, the Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) who was named as a defendant in the Complaint filed by Jonathan...
A California state court judge ruled on November 21 that the National Collegiate Athletic Association was “malicious” in its investigation of Todd McNair, a former assistant football coach at the University of Southern California, allowing the coach’s defamation...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed the defamation and invasion of privacy claims brought by a coach, who alleged that she was treated unfairly and ultimately terminated because she was an African-American female. Erin White,...
Former UCLA men’s basketball student-athlete Reeves Nelson’s defamation lawsuit against Time Inc., the parent company of Sports Illustrated, has been dismissed. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Ann Murphy wrote that Nelson’s suit infringed upon Sports...
