A federal judge has granted a state high school athletic association’s bid for summary judgment in a case where a coach argued that the association’s rule governing the amount of time that high school coaches can work with their present or future athletes during the...
A federal judge has ruled that Marriott International Inc. is required under federal and state laws to make accessible golf cars available to disabled golfers. Marriott, the world’s largest golf resort management company, which operates 26 golf courses in the...
A federal judge has denied a summary judgment motion of a Killeen Independent School District (KISD) police officer, who was working security at the entrance to a basketball game when a student sought entrance, was physically restrained, and then sued the district and...
A New York state court has granted the Sterling Mets, L.P. and the City of New York’s motion for summary judgment in a case where a plaintiff, Larry Rooney, alleged that he sustained personal injuries when he fell as he stepped off an allegedly defective curb near a...
In a majority decision, a panel of judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has turned away a bid by several Paralympic athletes to secure funding that is equal to what able-bodied Olympians receive from the United States Olympic Committee. Specifically, the...
By Jeffrey B. Tracy* Earlier this year, Major League Baseball and the National Football League were called into Congress to face questioning about incidents that arose within the organizations. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
By: John R. Middleton, Jr., Esq.,1 Scott L. Walker, Esq.,2 and Matthew Savare, Esq.3 Cashing In: Economic Benefits of New Sports Facilities In Part I of this article, we briefly examined two of the most prominent issues related to the successful completion of...
A New York state appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a trial court that a defendant indoor golf facility was negligent in the utilization of a safety net, which failed to support a plaintiff golfer after he lost his balance, fell, and was injured. The...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted a college football player’s request to remand his lawsuit back to state court, saying the removal was defective “because several of the defendants are Pennsylvania citizens and because not all...
Stadia Mania: The Business, Civic, and Legal Issues of New Stadium Construction (Part One) By: John R. Middleton, Jr., Esq., 1 Scott L. Walker, Esq., 2 and Matthew Savare, Esq. 3 The New Economics of Sports and the Boom of New Sports Facilities ...
