A federal judge from the Eastern District of California has given a partial victory to a university and its athletic department officials in a case where they were sued after discontinuing a women’s wrestling program. On December 18, 2003, plaintiffs Arezou...
A federal judge has reconsidered his previous decision and ordered that communications involving a former Penn State University basketball coach, her former player and a PSU athletic department official be turned over to a plaintiff in an unrelated case since it may...
A New York State appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a trial court, finding that a plaintiff student-athlete sufficiently raised triable issues of fact as to whether his track coach adequately trained and supervised the plaintiff during track practice and whether...
The 11th U. S, Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s holding that an African-American male assistant coach of the women’s basketball team did not establish claims for either retaliation or disparate treatment under Title VII. Jonathan...
A federal judge has dismissed Dartmouth College’s motion to dismiss a negligence and wrongful death claim brought by a student, who was injured in a physical education introductory ski class when an instructor told the student, who was a beginner, to ski down the hill...
A district judge from the Southern District of Texas has granted the United States Olympic Committee’s emergency motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a claim brought by Taekwondo athlete, who had asked the court to intervene in a “field of play”...
Duke University announced last month that it plans to challenge a lawsuit brought by the University of Louisville, which claims that Duke reneged on a contract that called for the schools to play four games against each other between 2002 and 2009. John F....
A federal judge from the Western District of Washington has enjoined a basketball manufacturer from continuing to market and sell its dual-cushion basketball in the wake of a jury’s determination that the manufacturer infringed upon the patent of the plaintiff,...
By Rick Karcher On November 29, a jury in Alabama awarded $5 million to a former University of Alabama football booster, Ray Keller, who claimed the NCAA defamed him when it announced the imposition of penalties on the Crimson Tide in 2002. Keller maintained...
A Texas state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s finding dismissing the claim of an assistant coach, who sued the head coach after the head coach, while demonstrating a drill, lost his grip on a bat, striking the assistant coach. Plaintiff Robin Chrismon and...
