Sports & Betting

  • February 23, 2024

    Sports & Betting Practice Group Of the Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided World Wrestling Entertainment to a better deal for shareholders in a $21 billion merger with the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship while conducting an internal investigation of the Northwestern University athletics department in the wake of a hazing scandal, earning it a spot in Law360's 2023 Sports and Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Red Sox Network Exec Says 18 Mos. Enough For Billing Fraud

    A former vice president with the network that broadcasts Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games argued Thursday that he should spend no more than 18 months in federal prison after a jury convicted him of bilking his former employer through a phony invoice scheme.

  • February 22, 2024

    New PTAB Panel Revives DraftKings Patent Challenge

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's new Delegated Rehearing Panel has found that a petition by DraftKings challenging a patent owned by rival Colossus Bets was wrongly denied, because the original panel misinterpreted a term in the patent.

  • February 22, 2024

    Athletes' NCAA Suit Will Wait For JPML

    College athletes fighting for a slice of the broadcasting profits their games earn will have to wait until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decides whether to consolidate their case with another similar suit before they continue briefing, a Colorado federal judge has ruled.

  • February 22, 2024

    Game Maker Deserves Sanctions For Sealed Docs, Court Told

    High 5 Games and its attorneys should be slapped with sanctions for repeatedly trying to seal nearly all company records and filing overly long court briefs in a class action accusing the casino phone game developer of defrauding players, according to a motion filed by the lead plaintiff.

  • February 22, 2024

    First-Ever Anti-Doping Act Defendant Sentenced To 3 Months

    A "naturopathic" therapist who distributed performance-enhancing drugs during training for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 has been sentenced to three months in prison by a New York federal judge, becoming the first-ever defendant to receive time in jail under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act.

  • February 22, 2024

    DraftKings Says Ex-Exec's $310K Attys Fees Bid Is Excessive

    DraftKings has told a California federal court that the "whopping" $310,000 in attorney fees requested by a former executive after the company shuffled the case back and forth between state and federal court is an unreasonable fee no "reasonable client" would pay.

  • February 22, 2024

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP helps its clients navigate critical moments, including guiding Caesars to victory over a change-skimming lawsuit and engineering a multibillion-dollar sports betting arbitration win for Fox FSG Services in a spat with FanDuel, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Deals Rumor Mill: Occidental, Kroger-Albertsons, BuzzFeed

    Occidental explores a $20 billion sale of Western Midstream, the FTC and some states could sue to block the $24.6 billion Kroger-Albertsons deal, and The Independent is taking over BuzzFeed's U.K. and Irish operations. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • February 21, 2024

    SEC Seeks $4M Damages Award In Sports Stock Fraud Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday to put the sports business Crystal World Holdings and others on the hook for more than $4.1 million in total damages for their alleged securities fraud.

  • February 21, 2024

    Tribes, Mich., Feds Refute Great Lakes Fishing Challenge

    Several Native American tribes, the state of Michigan and the federal government have urged the Sixth Circuit to reject a sport fishing group's attempt to sink a tribal fishing pact for parts of lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, arguing it strikes an appropriate balance between respecting tribal fishing rights and protecting the Great Lakes fisheries.

  • February 21, 2024

    Boston Faces Suit Over Women's Soccer Stadium Project

    The city of Boston was slammed with a complaint in Massachusetts Superior Court by a nonprofit organization seeking to halt the city's pending privatization of the George Robert White Memorial Stadium in order to transform it into a women's professional soccer stadium.

  • February 21, 2024

    Cheer Supply Antitrust Claims Axed Again For 'Court's Sanity'

    Plaintiffs in an antitrust suit against cheerleading supply company Varsity Brands will not be able to resurrect previously dismissed claims after a Tennessee federal judge again shot them down in order to preserve "the court's sanity."

  • February 21, 2024

    MLB Wants Out Of Ex-Scouts' Colorado Age Bias

    Major League Baseball took another swing at dismissing a proposed age discrimination class action filed by several former scouts Tuesday, stressing that the vast majority of the suit has no place in Colorado federal court.

  • February 21, 2024

    1st Circ. Won't Revive $19M Casino Deal Suit Against Wynn

    The First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a real estate executive's suit claiming Wynn Resorts reneged on a handshake deal to pay him $19 million for helping it obtain a casino license, pointing to an opinion from Massachusetts' top appellate court saying the agreement is unenforceable on public policy grounds.

  • February 21, 2024

    Miami Heat Player Sued After Man's Leg Amputated In Crash

    A Florida man has brought a state court lawsuit alleging negligence against Miami Heat forward Haywood Highsmith Jr., saying his leg was partially amputated as a result of a vehicle crash caused by the professional basketball player earlier this month.

  • February 21, 2024

    Atlantic City Hotels Want Room Rate Suit Tossed

    Atlantic City casinos said on Tuesday a suit alleging they conspired to inflate room rates should be tossed, arguing it doesn't show there was any kind of agreement between the casinos and that its claims are partially time-barred.

  • February 21, 2024

    Broker Defends Claims Against Suns Owner, Mortgage Co.

    A mortgage broker pushed back against a report recommending that a Florida federal court toss its antitrust case against the owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns and his company United Wholesale Mortgage, saying the analysis of its conspiracy claims included several errors.

  • February 21, 2024

    Feds Seek 5 Years Over Red Sox Network Exec's Billing Fraud

    Federal prosecutors are arguing for a prison sentence of more than five years for a former executive with the network that broadcasts Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games after he was convicted of stealing more than $575,000 from the company through a sham billing scheme.

  • February 21, 2024

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells advised Major League Soccer's Inter Miami CF on its groundbreaking acquisition of international soccer icon Lionel Messi and was lead counsel for a group led by Josh Harris in its purchase of the NFL's Washington Commanders for the highest sale price in North American sports history, placing it among Law360's 2023 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Fubo Wants Sports Giants' 'Unlawful' Streaming Plan Blocked

    The streaming company Fubo asked a New York federal court on Tuesday to block a joint venture under which ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery would combine sports portfolios into one streaming app, claiming that the plan would harm competition and result in higher prices for consumers.

  • February 20, 2024

    Fla. Gaming Pact Not Allowed Under Federal Law, Expert Says

    A Miami law school adjunct professor supporting a pair of casinos seeking to undo the Seminole Tribe of Florida's gaming agreement authorizing online sports betting has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the establishments' case or reverse a lower court decision, saying the pact violates the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

  • February 20, 2024

    Nebraska Allowed Coach's Grooming, Ex-Player Says

    A former University of Nebraska basketball player has accused the school of failing to properly oversee an assistant coach who pressured her into having sex, saying an official later blamed her for the inappropriate relationship.

  • February 20, 2024

    Casinos Say 'Unique' Policy Should Cover $130M COVID Loss

    A casino operator with properties on the Las Vegas Strip and beyond told a Nevada federal court that its "unique" all-risk insurance is the broadest available coverage and should pay for $130 million in business interruption losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • February 20, 2024

    DraftKings Pushes To Keep Strict Limits On Former Exec

    Sports betting company DraftKings Inc. on Tuesday urged a Massachusetts federal court to maintain tight restrictions on a previous executive who is now working for Fanatics, bashing the man's attempts at loosening the court's order as "procedural sophistry" that will threaten its business.

Expert Analysis

  • DOJ's Google Sanctions Motion Shows Risks Of Auto-Deletion

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    The U.S. Department of Justice recently hit Google with a sanctions motion over its alleged failure to preserve relevant instant-messaging communications, a predicament that should be a wake-up call for counsel concerning the danger associated with automatic-deletion features and how it's been handled by the courts, say Oscar Shine and Emma Ashe at Selendy Gay.

  • Everyrealm Case Spurs Big Workplace Arbitration Questions

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    If a New York federal judge's recent textualist ruling in Johnson v. Everyrealm denying arbitration of an entire employment lawsuit is appealed and upheld, it could set the stage for significant impairment of the enforcement of arbitration agreements, says Rex Berry at Signature Resolution.

  • What To Expect From A Litigation Finance Industry Recession

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    There's little data on how litigation finance would fare in a recession, but a look at stakeholders' incentives suggests corporate demand for litigation finance would increase in a recessionary environment, while the number of funders could shrink, says Matthew Oxman at LexShares.

  • The Far-Reaching Impacts Of 'NFTs Can Be A Security' Ruling

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    A New York federal judge's recent first-of-its-kind finding in Friel v. Dapper Labs that non-fungible tokens can be securities will likely be used by other plaintiffs — and perhaps the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — as a key part of their respective playbooks in pending and future securities matters involving digital assets, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Fla. NIL Law May Cue State Publicity Right Deregulation Trend

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    A new Florida name, image and likeness law that significantly reduces prohibitions on colleges, athletic departments and coaches from participating in endorsement deals is a sign of a possible trend of state deregulation of student-athletes' publicity rights — and an attractive development for businesses, says Drew Dorner at Duane Morris.

  • Justices Leave Questions Open On Dual-Purpose Atty Advice

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent dismissal of In re: Grand Jury on grounds that certiorari was improvidently granted leaves unresolved a circuit split over the proper test for deciding when attorney-client privilege protects a lawyer's advice that has multiple purposes, say Susan Combs and Richard Kiely at Holland & Hart.

  • A TM Lesson From Damar Hamlin's 'Did We Win?' Shirts

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    Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's recent application for the "Did We Win?" trademark — just days after suffering a cardiac arrest, and two days before selling T-shirts with the phrase — is a reminder for attorneys that registering a trademark does not create it, but using it in commerce does, says Jeremiah Foley at Harness IP.

  • Why Celebrities Are Ensnared In SEC Crypto-Touting Actions

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    Given the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's increasingly broad view of which crypto-assets constitute securities and its willingness to go after celebrities, including most recently former NBA star Paul Pierce, for violating anti-touting laws, promoters need to pay close attention to their disclosure obligations, say Kurt Gottschall and Payton Roberts at Haynes Boone.

  • Steps Lawyers Can Take Following Involuntary Terminations

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    Though lawyers can struggle to recover from involuntary terminations, it's critical that they be able to step back, review any feedback given and look for opportunities for growth, say Jessica Hernandez at JLH Coaching & Consulting and Albert Tawil at Lateral Hub.

  • Adidas Stripe TM Trial Loss Hinged On Price Points

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    A Manhattan federal jury's recent clearance of Thom Browne's liability in a trademark infringement case brought by Adidas over its three-stripe design highlights well-settled trademark law — different price points and channels of trade can distinguish what would otherwise be considered confusingly similar marks, says Paula Hopkins at Venable.

  • High Court Ax Of Atty-Client Privilege Case Deepens Split

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent dismissal of In re: Grand Jury as improvidently granted maintains a three-way circuit split on the application of attorney-client privilege to multipurpose communications, although the justices have at least shown a desire to address it, say Trey Bourn and Thomas DiStanislao at Butler Snow.

  • Best Practices For Celeb Alcohol Ventures In Growing Market

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    Recent data shows that celebrity-owned brands are key drivers for alcohol e-commerce — which is predicted to grow by over 30% in the next five years — so attorneys advising famous clients should review the complex regulatory system for alcoholic beverages in the U.S. before taking up such a venture, say Rachel Lawson and Jacob White at Dickinson Wright.

  • 3 Job Satisfaction Questions For Partners Considering Moves

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    The post-pandemic rise in legal turnover may cause partners to ask themselves what they really want from their workplace, how they plan to grow their practice and when it's time to make a move, says Patrick Moya at Quaero Group.

  • 4 Exercises To Quickly Build Trust On Legal Teams

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    High-performance legal teams can intentionally build trust through a rigorous approach, including open-ended conversations and personality assessments, to help attorneys bond fast, even if they are new to the firm or group, says Ben Sachs at the University of Virginia School of Law.

  • New Rulings Show Job Duties Crucial To Equal Pay Act Claims

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    Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Tenth Circuits emphasize that it is an employee's actual responsibilities, and not just their job title, that are critical to a pay discrimination claim under the Equal Pay Act and can offer some lessons for employers in avoiding and defending these claims, say Fiona Ong and Lindsey White at Shawe Rosenthal.

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