Sports Litigation Alert Current Issue

By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Sports enterprises across the country regularly purchase insurance to cover various contingencies, including physical damage to their facilities.  The Los Angeles Lakers bought insurance in 2019 that covered many things, but in...

By Gary Chester, Senior Writer The law tends to favor arbitration provisions because arbitration is an efficient means of resolving contract disputes. But does the general rule hold for civil rights claims? According to the Ninth Circuit, the issue is hardly a...

A Connecticut state court has delivered a partial victory to a baseball coach, who was sued by the mother of youth (D.D.) after D.D. suffered a head injury during a practice when another youth carelessly swung his bat, striking D.D. The incident occurred on September...

A North Carolina State Court of Appeals had affirmed the ruling of the Full Commission of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which found that a former “tire carrier” for a NASCAR team was not entitled to disability payments because of an injury he suffered,...

By Kate Vivian Davis, of Bricker & Eckler A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati issued an opinion on May 19, 2022 that arguably expands the scope of liability K-12 school districts may face with respect to Title IX claims of...

By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer & Professor, Sports Media, Roy H. Park School of Communication, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu In a recent keynote address to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Inclusion Forum, legend and icon...

By Angela C. de Céspedes & Heather E. Kemp, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, the U.S. Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) announced collective bargaining agreements that achieved equal pay for the Women’s and Men’s National Teams. The...

By Dr. Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer Cleveland Browns and former Houston Texans Quarterback Deshaun Watson is currently not playing offense this off-season, but is defending himself against 24 civil lawsuits and counting wherein the...

The U.S. is the only country in the world with substantial legalized sports betting on college campuses.  LEAD1 Association (LEAD1) President and CEO Tom McMillen recentyly interviewed Martin Lycka, Senior Vice President for American Regulatory Affairs &...

Ashwin Krishnan, Vice President and General Counsel of the Miami Marlins. is an accomplished executive in the sports industry with more than a decade of extensive legal and business. But it didn’t always used to be that way. As Krishnan tells it, he just another law...

By Carmen Palumbo, GW Law 2L (Editor’s Note: The following appears in Esports and the Law, a periodical produced by Hackney Publications.) Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the parent company of 2K sports, is facing a class-action lawsuit over the sale of loot boxes...

It wasn’t long after we reached out to Moira O’Connor, then Director of Operations at Soldier Field, that she switched jobs. Thomas has a legal background, which is why we sought her out for an interview feature about her experience with sports facilities. Fortunately...

The Board of Appeal of Classification (BAC) has sanctioned India’s Para athletics athlete Vinod Kumar to a period of two years’ ineligibility for the disciplinary offence of Intentional Misrepresentation. World Para Athletics commenced disciplinary proceedings with...

By Gina McKlveen A recent study published by the American Journal of Neuroradiology last month, revealed the ramifications of traumatic brain injuries for college athletes who not only experience sports-related concussions, but repetitive head injuries as well. The...

By Justin Whitaker The fifth annual NCAA-Department of Defense Grand Alliance Concussion Conference, presented virtually April 21, featured concussion experts and researchers sharing preliminary and recently published data. The conference, titled "A New Era of...

Sports Law Professor (GWU) Ellen Zavian, who is also the Editor-in-Chief of Esports and the Law, has launched Esports Law Show, a podcast that examines legal and business issues in the esports industry. Professor Zavian, who has contributed on the subject to the...

Baily & Glasser will host a webinar on Thursday, June 23 (from 2:00-3:00 PM ET) that addresses Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The webinar – on the 50th anniversary of the day that Title IX became law – “will teach students, athletes, parents,...

The global law firm of Hogan Lovells represented Rob Walton, Carrie Walton Penner and Greg Penner in the purchase and sale agreement announced on June 7 for the Walton-Penner family to acquire the Denver Broncos from the Pat Bowlen Trust. The Hogan Lovells deal team...

Blank Rome LLP has announced that David A. Moreno, Jr. has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Commercial Litigation practice group and as a member of the firm’s Sports Law team. Moreno is a seasoned trial attorney whose practice spans commercial...