The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that a plaintiff failed to prove that a coach acted with racial animus when the coach declined to name her son to the varsity basketball team. The incident leading to the litigation...
By Steven H. Rosenfeld, Partner, and Carla Varriale, Partner In light of the constant growth of the spa and fitness industries and recognizing the liability exposure facing owners, a recent decision by the New York’s Appellate Division, First Department,...
A Connecticut state court has granted summary judgment to a soccer association and a youth soccer league in case where they were sued by a soccer player who suffered an injury at the hands of an opposing team’s player when an altercation between their two teams broke...
A New York state court judge in Nassau County has granted a school’s motion for summary judgment in a personal injury case involving a cheerleader who fell while practicing a stunt. At the time of the accident, Dina L. Moakley was 16-years-old and in the 11th...
Locker rooms, it seems, are now home to more than just athletic equipment and dirty uniforms. With an outbreak of the drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, athletic facilities across the country are making special effort to take a number of precautions,...
A federal judge from the Northern District of California has granted the National Football League Players Association’s motion to dismiss a case in which it was sued for violations of California’s unfair competition law, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary...
The Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, held last month that no duty of care exists to warn or to protect non-patron spectators who are injured while retrieving foul balls outside of a baseball stadium. In Haymon v. Pettit, 2007 Slip Op 09071...
A Texas state appeals court has affirmed a decision denying the application of the public-interest exception in a case involving a challenge to the state athletic association’s rule requiring student-athletes to abstain from athletics for a year when they transfer to...
By Timothy Liam Epstein, Esq. SmithAmundsen, LLC In Regan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co., 2007 Ill. App. LEXIS 894 (1st Dist. Aug. 17, 2007), the Appellate Court of Illinois affirmed the trial court, which granted summary judgment to a collegiate baseball...
Few companies have suffered more from the decade-long slump in golf course construction than the golf-oriented GPS companies. So it should come as no surprise that the industry players are warring among themselves. ProLink Holdings Corp., for example,...
