January 20, 2021
The First Circuit ruled Wednesday that the federal Wire Act applies only to interstate communications related to sports betting, rejecting a 2018 U.S. Department of Justice legal opinion interpreting the act as applying to gambling more broadly.
January 03, 2021
Sports leagues and teams are looking to collect billions of dollars lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic as college athletes seek to chip away at the NCAA's amateurism rules in just some of the high-stakes legal battles set to play out in 2021.
July 02, 2020
Attorneys are set to tackle a number of lingering legal issues in the second half of the year, such as a reexamination of NCAA rules prohibiting college athletes from earning money and novel, pandemic-created disputes including fans demanding refunds for canceled games.
March 24, 2020
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania told the First Circuit in an amicus brief on Monday that the Department of Justice's disputed new take on federal interstate gambling prohibitions could end up costing the state's lottery system more than $1 billion in annual revenue.
March 06, 2020
New Jersey's attorney general has put his chips in at the First Circuit alongside the New Hampshire Lottery Commission and a lottery vendor challenging the U.S. Department of Justice's revised opinion of the Wire Act, saying the new opinion threatens to end New Jersey's multimillion-dollar online gambling industry.
March 05, 2020
Michigan's attorney general and 16 states urged the First Circuit on Thursday to affirm a lower court decision vacating the government's interpretation of the federal Wire Act that they say threatens billions of dollars in revenue from state-run lotteries.
March 03, 2020
A New Hampshire lottery vendor is urging the First Circuit to uphold a ruling overturning the U.S. Department of Justice's controversial opinion that the Wire Act applies to all betting, saying the lower court was right to find the agency's new interpretation of the act contrary to law.
January 01, 2020
With college athletes continuing their legal challenge to the NCAA's amateur system and the U.S. women's soccer team fighting for pay equality, 2020 is set to be another busy one for the world of sports law. Here, Law360 takes a look at cases attorneys should watch this year.