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Bowen v. Adidas America Inc et al

  1. August 23, 2021

    Top Court NCAA Ruling Can't Save Recruit's Adidas RICO Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on NCAA amateurism is not a "deus ex machina" that can revive a former University of Louisville basketball recruit's civil racketeering claims against Adidas over a college hoops corruption scandal, a South Carolina federal judge said Friday.

  2. July 21, 2021

    Adidas Says NCAA's High Court Loss Can't Save RICO Suit

    Adidas says the NCAA's recent loss at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case over amateurism restriction does not show that athletes have a business interest in playing college basketball, rejecting an argument from a former University of Louisville recruit to revive claims for damages over how the college hoops corruption scandal tanked his college career.

  3. July 07, 2021

    NCAA Recruit Says Justices Saved His Adidas RICO Claim

    A former University of Louisville basketball recruit said Tuesday that a South Carolina federal judge must reconsider tossing RICO claims against Adidas in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on NCAA amateurism that he says demonstrates college athletes have a business interest in competing.

  4. May 26, 2021

    NCAA Prospect's Adidas RICO Suit An Air Ball, Judge Says

    The NCAA men's basketball corruption scandal may have tanked a student-athlete's college hoops dreams, but that's not enough to bring civil racketeering claims against Adidas and others implicated in the scheme, a South Carolina federal judge said Wednesday when dismissing the case.

  5. October 23, 2020

    Recruit's Father Can't Escape Adidas Civil Corruption Claims

    A South Carolina federal judge said Friday that a former financial adviser and the father of a former University of Louisville basketball recruit cannot escape Adidas' claims blaming them for a bribery scheme to steer the recruit to the Adidas-sponsored school that the recruit says tanked his college career.

  6. September 10, 2020

    Ex-Recruit's Dad Resists Effort To Pull Him Into Bribery Suit

    A former University of Louisville recruit's father told a South Carolina federal court that the financial adviser who paid him as part of a college basketball corruption scandal cannot try to hold him partly liable while at the same time fighting claims of taking bribes himself.

  7. June 01, 2020

    Gov't Hoops Trial Witness Wants Out Of Adidas Civil Claims

    A financial manager who made an illicit payment to the father of a former University of Louisville basketball recruit and was a key government witness in a criminal case over the scheme urged a South Carolina federal court to toss related civil racketeering claims by Adidas in a lawsuit claiming the payment tanked the recruit's college basketball career.

  8. March 02, 2020

    Adidas Can't Dodge Former Student-Athlete's RICO Suit

    A federal judge in South Carolina refused to toss a civil racketeering lawsuit by former University of Louisville basketball recruit Brian Bowen II against Adidas and others over the NCAA college basketball criminal corruption scandal that he says tanked his college and professional basketball career.

  9. September 10, 2019

    Adidas Fixer Avoids Prison As NY Judge Credits Cooperation

    A Massachusetts man who worked as a fixer giving cash to young basketball standouts so they would pick colleges sponsored by Adidas avoided prison Tuesday as a Manhattan federal judge credited his "essential" cooperation in the feds' crackdown on dirty money in the NCAA.