The Supreme Court of Montana has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a team owner was entitled to a default judgment from an indoor football league, stemming from a legal dispute involving the team’s nickname. The National Indoor Football League, LLC (NIFL)...
By Lyssa Myska Allen When Marion Jones won five medals in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, she made headlines as one of the best female athletes in the world. Seven years later, she made them again as she admitted to doping during those games and lying under...
A Minnesota state court judge has denied an appeal of a college basketball coach, who had claimed he was “treated unfairly” when he was offered an assistant coach position at the University of Minnesota and “then terminated shortly after he quit his prior job and...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Michigan has granted a lacrosse equipment manufacturer’s motion for a preliminary injunction against a competitor in a patent infringement case. The court found specifically that Warrior Sports, Inc. demonstrated “a...
An Illinois state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling, effectively dismissing the claim of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the March Madness Athletic Association, L.L.C., which had claimed that a defendant company had violated its...
(Editor’s Note: Additional stories about the recent Sports Lawyers Association conference in San Francisco will appear in future issues of the Alert.) One of the traditional highlights of the SLA conference is the Saturday forums, where labor and management...
By Kadie Otto, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Western Carolina University Most recently, my colleague(1) and I presented a paper at the inaugural College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) conference held at The University of Memphis(2). In this...
A New York state court judge has sided with the Golden Gate Yacht Club in a dispute about whether Societe Nautique de Geneve, and its America’s Cup two-time defending champion Alinghi, should have to first defend its title against the GGYC-backed BMW Oracle Racing...
Sonny Vaccaro spun around, almost tripping on the wire attached to his microphone. The controversial 68-year-old sports marketing genius was yelling now, ranting against the NCAA. “Student. Athlete. Non-profit. Don’t you see? It’s a trick,” said Vaccaro,...
By Daniel A. Etna, Esq. The University of Kentucky recently designated offensive coordinator Joker Phillips as its next head football coach, effective when Rich Brooks retires. At Texas Tech, when Bob Knight decided mid-season that enough was enough, the...
