Analysis from the Concussion Legacy Foundation and researchers from Oxford Brookes University and 12 other academic institutions has specifically found “a causal link between repeated head impacts and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The international team of...
Robert (Bob) Lattinville is one of those rare sports lawyers, who has had two highly successful careers in sports law – one as a lawyer and one as an agent. Besides that, he has also played an important role as a board member of the Sports Lawyers Association for a...
Dr. Jim Riordan, the founder in 2000 of the MBA Sport Management program at Florida Atlantic University, was recently the subject of an exclusive interview with Sports Litigation Alert, which follows. Has the pandemic made sports facilities more secure or less secure,...
The National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School will present its annual fall conference on Friday, October 15. It will feature Perspectives from members of the Sports Law Alumni Association who teach sports law and...
By Coley Howard, Elizabeth Catalano, and Dylan Henry, of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP (The following article appeared in Sports Medicine and the Law, a publication produced by Hackney Publications) In April 2019, Brandon Copeland, linebacker for the...
A federal judge from the Western District of Michigan has granted a motion for a temporary restraining order, which will allow more than a dozen student athletes at Western Michigan University, who have not been vaccinated against COVID 19, to continue to participate...
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have determined that race (Black or White) influences outcomes and subjective experiences in young athletes who have sustained a sports-related concussions. The study was performed with the aid of the Vanderbilt Sports...
A magistrate judge from the Southern District of Texas has found mistakes in an administrative court’s decision, which denied the application of a former NFL player for disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. Thus, the court granted...
John Mack, who has previously held the title of student-athlete, coach, and administrator at Princeton University, has added another role to his resume – Director of Athletics. He succeeds Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who announced in May she would be stepping down to take...
By Jordyn Allan and Susan M. Manwaring, of Miller Thomson LLP The Federal Court of Appeal has now overturned two separate decisions of the Minister of National Revenue denying the applications of two sports organizations for registration as...
By Robert J. Romano, JD LLM, sports law professor at St. John’s University In a lawsuit filed by former Seton Hall basketball player Myles Powell, the 2019-2020 Big East Conference Player of the Year claims that the university’s failure to correctly diagnose and treat...
By Ellen M. Zavian The following appeared in My Legal Bookie, a publication produced by Hackney Publications and Ifrah Law. It is available on a complimentary basis at My Legal Bookie.) Liv Biesemans started her career as an attorney at the Brussels Bar, a long way...
