Sports Litigation Alert Current Issue

By Gary Chester, Senior Writer The Sports Litigation Alert recently summarized the lawsuit of Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, who obtained a preliminary injunction to prevent the NCAA from enforcing its rule stating that a year of junior college sports...

By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Senior Writer, and Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu In honor of the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX in June of 2022, the University of Oregon (UO) athletics department announced that it was launching a...

By Oliver Canning The Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by former Tulane University swimmer Ashley Carollo, who claimed the school was responsible for injuries she sustained during a 2021 swim practice. Carollo...

By Dr. Kwangho Park (Assistant Professor, The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina or Troy University) D.N.(Plaintiff), a 16-year-old high school student residing in Broward County, Florida, is a transgender girl who has identified and lived as female...

By Dr. John Wendt There is no question that Anthony Knox, Jr. is a very special high school wrestler.  Competing for Saint John Vianney High School (SJV) in New Jersey, he has consistently been ranked as number one in the country in the 126-pound class for four...

By Erica J. Zonder & Emily J. Houghton  On December 23, 2024 Bryan Sailer, the former women’s soccer coach, filed a complaint against Emporia State University (ESU) and Athletic Director David Spafford seeking a remedy for gender equity complaints in...

By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer and Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College staurows@ithaca.edu On April 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the creation of a “Title IX Special Investigations...

By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer On March 26, 2025, former University of Tennessee head football coach Jeremy Pruitt filed a civil lawsuit seeking upwards of $100 million in the Circuit Court of Dekalb County, Alabama against the...

By Christopher R. Deubert, Senior Writer For many people, working for a professional sports team would be a dream come true.  Polls generally show that around 70% of Americans identify as a sports fan.  Understandably then, many seek to combine their...

A couple years ago, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) announced the hiring of sports lawyer Eric Schaffer to its leadership team. Having spent almost 20 years in a leadership capacity with Washington’s NFL team, most recently as its Senior Vice President of Football Operations...

By Clare E. Maness, JD Since Congress enacted 36 U.S.C. § 220541 in 2018 and designated the U.S. Center for SafeSport as the United States’ national safe-sport organization (Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017, 2018),...

By Joseph Michael Ricco IV Colorado and Syracuse recently teamed up to try something college football has never allowed before: a joint spring game between two Division I programs. The idea, led by Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, was meant to bring more structure...

(Editor’s Note: The following appeared in Esports and the Law.) At Saul Ewing, Tami Carmichael provides strategic legal advice to clients on advertising and branding initiatives, both when they launch and commercialize new ventures, as well as throughout the growth...

By Connor T. Bean Introduction In recent years, the landscape of college athletics has seen a massive change due to recent developments. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) now allows student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness (NIL)...

The Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) has announced a comprehensive partnership with Bricker Graydon LLP. The partnership will serve as a resource for the ASUN and its membership, assisting with innovative and adaptable strategies in the modernization of college...

Amundsen Davis LLC, a leading Midwest law firm, has announced that Luke A. Fedlam has joined the firm as partner in its Entertainment, Sports & Media Service Group. The firm contends Fedlam's "deep understanding of the intersection of corporate law and the sports...

By Justin Kouyoumdjian, 3L, Santa Clara Law School Fans of the National Football League will agree that the Minnesota Vikings’ “Skol” chant has evolved into one of the most recognizable and iconic traditions in the sport.[1] Rooted in Scandinavian history, the “Skol”...

Nearly 40% of adult Americans say they’ve experienced some type of sport-related mistreatment in their lives, a new study shows. Mistreatment ranged from psychological and emotional to physical and sexual. But most people who reported mistreatment experienced more...

A new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by researchers from the University of California San Diego Qualcomm Institute and School of Medicine, reveals a dramatic increase in sports betting and gambling addiction help-seeking since the...

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has announced that Jill Bodensteiner has joined the organization as a board member. Bodensteiner is in her seventh year as Vice President and Director of Athletics at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, after...

LawVu, which unifies the legal workspace, has been recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in the Market Guide for the second year running. The honor reinforces the company’s reputation for delivering critical capabilities and market-leading innovation to...

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has announced that Jill Bodensteiner has joined the organization as a board member. Bodensteiner is in her seventh year as Vice President and Director of Athletics at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, after...