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February 23, 2024
Dish, IFit Settle Patent Suit Over Streaming Tech
Fitness equipment maker NordicTrack's parent company has settled a dispute with Dish Network that accused it of infringing Dish patents related to streaming technology, drawing to a close a fight that spread all the way to the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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February 23, 2024
NCAA Can't Enforce NIL Restrictions Amid Suit, Judge Rules
A Tennessee federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction preventing the NCAA from enforcing its ban on name, image and likeness compensation for athletes being recruited by institutions, allowing the schools to immediately offer NIL deals to recruits without punishment.
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February 23, 2024
Ex-NFL Player Says Bid To Toss Benefits Suit Is A Fumble
Retired NFL player Raymond Lee Woodard Jr. has told a Texas federal court he took all the administrative steps required to resolve his retirement benefits dispute before filing a lawsuit, and therefore it should not be tossed as the plan has requested.
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February 23, 2024
Citibank Looks To Dodge Ch. 7 Trustee's Fraud Claims
Citibank has urged a New York federal judge to ax claims that the financial institution assisted with a Ponzi scheme involving a now-defunct sports and concert ticket broker, saying the Chapter 7 Trustee for the troubled business who brought the claims was assigned them to subvert a rule that would otherwise bar his case.
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February 23, 2024
New 'Varsity Blues' Judge Should Hear Plea Redo, Parent Says
A former television executive looking to have her guilty plea wiped out in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case asked Friday for a different judge, arguing that U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton's "incorrect" ruling is the basis for her motion to vacate her conviction.
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February 23, 2024
Del. SPAC Rulings Said To Weigh Against Super Group Case
Attorneys for investors seeking damages after a special purpose acquisition company took Super Group Ltd., an online international gambling venture, public in a $4.75 billion deal in 2022 repeatedly pointed a Delaware vice chancellor on Friday to the Chancery Court's growing SPAC case law as reasons to keep their lawsuit alive.
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February 23, 2024
Russia Loses Appeal Of Olympics Suspension, Funding Ban
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday dismissed Russia's bid to reverse the International Olympic Committee's decision to strip its official status after it attempted to absorb Ukrainian sports organizations following the 2022 invasion of the country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Recent Rulings Affirm Tribal Sovereign Immunity And Joinder
Two recent rulings from the Ninth Circuit and one from the Western District of Washington attest to the strength of tribal sovereign immunity — even in cases where there is no named tribal party — and strongly suggest that tribes themselves are best positioned to represent their own interests, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Fox Ex-Producer Case Is A Lesson In Joint Representation
A former Fox News producer's allegations that the network's lawyers pressured her to give misleading testimony in Fox's defamation battle with Dominion Voting Systems should remind lawyers representing a nonparty witness that the rules of joint representation apply, says Jared Marx at HWG.
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Beware The Rocket Ship: How SEC Is Scrutinizing Emoji Use
Recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cases illustrate how emojis may be weaponized to allege the existence of a security in litigation — the rocket ship emoji has received particular attention — and offer helpful insight into how the agency may use emojis as evidence of a statement, act or intent going forward, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: Baseball And MDLs
With the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation meeting on MLB opening day, Alan Rothman at Sidley explores connections between the national pastime and MDL, including sports-related proceedings in the areas of antitrust, personal injury, and marketing and sales.
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Opinion
Stanford Law Protest Highlights Rise Of Incivility In Discourse
The recent Stanford Law School incident, where students disrupted a speech by U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, should be a reminder to teach law students how to be effective advocates without endangering physical and mental health, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada.
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Opinion
Proposed Broadcast Ban On Sports Betting Ads Is Overbroad
The Betting on our Future Act, which proposes a total broadcast ban of advertising for sports betting, would violate commercial speech rights due to the heightened protection of advertising speech since the tobacco ban, and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster under a key U.S. Supreme Court test, says Mark Conrad at Fordham University.
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Dispute Prevention Strategies To Halt Strife Before It Starts
With geopolitical turbulence presenting increased risks of business disputes amid court backlogs and ballooning costs, companies should consider building mechanisms for dispute prevention into newly established partnerships to constructively resolve conflicts before they do costly damage, say Ellen Waldman and Allen Waxman at the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
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What Esports Ruling Means For College Title IX Compliance
A Florida federal court's recent ruling in Navarro v. Florida Institute of Technology, that esports are not subject to Title IX scrutiny, could guide internal audits but might also permit unchecked loopholes — so colleges should watch for case law that may alter or qualify the determination, say Christina Stylianou and Gregg Clifton at Lewis Brisbois.
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Defamation Alternatives For Suing Hoax Social Media Users
A recent proliferation of false or hoax social media content has targeted public figures and corporate accounts, and for plaintiffs seeking redress there are three types of claims that may be less-risky alternatives to defamation and libel litigation, say Charles Schafer and Ross Kloeber at Sidley.
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Practical Skills Young Attorneys Must Master To Be Happier
For young lawyers, finding happiness on the job — with its competitive nature and high expectations for billable hours — is complicated, but three skills can help them gain confidence, reduce stress and demonstrate their professional value in ways they never imagined, says career counselor Susan Smith Blakely.
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Pending NCAA Ruling Could Spell Change For Unpaid Interns
The Third Circuit's upcoming Johnson v. NCAA decision, over whether student-athletes can be considered university employees, could reverberate beyond college sports and force employers with unpaid student interns to add these workers to their payrolls, say Babak Yousefzadeh and Skyler Hicks at Sheppard Mullin.
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ABA Opinion Should Help Clarify Which Ethics Rules Apply
A recent American Bar Association opinion provides key guidance on interpreting ABA Model Rule 8.5's notoriously complex choice-of-law analysis — and should help lawyers authorized to practice in multiple jurisdictions determine which jurisdiction's ethics rules govern their conduct, say attorneys at HWG.
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4 Ways To Reboot Your Firm's Stalled Diversity Program
Law firms that have failed to see real progress despite years of diversity initiatives can move forward by committing to tackle four often-taboo obstacles that hinder diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, says Steph Maher at Jaffe.
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Slippery Super Bowl Should Raise OSHA Red Flags For Cos.
The slick field conditions of Super Bowl 57 would be considered unsafe in traditional work settings, and serve as a reminder for employers of their obligation to provide a workplace compliant with Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines — or risk paying the penalties, says Kristin Gray at FordHarrison.
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DOJ's Google Sanctions Motion Shows Risks Of Auto-Deletion
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.