The women’s track and field coach at the University of Hawaii has withdrawn a lawsuit, which alleged that her employer violated Title IX when it provided similarly situated men’s programs with preferential treatment. Carmyn James had also alleged that UH...
Ball State University has reached a settlement with former men’s basketball coach Ronny Thompson after an independent investigator concluded that some members of the school’s athletic department acted with racially hostile or insensitive behavior toward...
By Jarett Warner of Havkins, Rosenfeld, Ritzert & Varriale Leagues, teams and premises owners would do well to heed a decision by New York’s Appellate Division, First Department on January 8, 2008 that elaborated upon the circumstances where a...
A federal judge in the District of Kansas has delivered a partial victory to a plaintiff, who sued a racetrack owner and a race sponsor-promoter for negligence after he suffered an injury during a race. Specifically, the court preserved judgment as a matter of...
A federal judge has dismissed the Kentucky Speedway’s antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. (ISC), finding that the defendants were well within their rights to assign races to tracks that are owned by ISC. In its 2005 lawsuit, the...
The former women’s basketball coach at Montana State University can proceed with her Title IX claim against her former employer after a judge held that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 should be construed broadly and that the plaintiff has met the required...
By Ryan M. Rodenberg Fantasy sports league players should celebrate. And it has nothing to do with how many touchdowns Tom Brady or Peyton Manning threw during the recently completed NFL season. Nor does it have anything to do with points scored by Kevin...
A federal judge from the Northern District of Mississippi has denied a student-athlete’s motion for a temporary restraining order that would have allowed him to compete on the varsity basketball team at his high school, finding that he failed to show either a...
A family in New Hampshire absorbed a painful lesson last fall when a federal judge sided with that state’s highest court, which “interpreted” a 1978 statute that shielded ski resorts from litigation associated with more traditional skiing accidents to also include...
The president of the University of Nevada, Reno has instituted a campus ban on the school’s former women’s soccer coach, who sued last August, alleging that she was fired after reporting several injustices within the athletic department. Terri Patraw claimed in...
