January 12, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, the NFL defended its arbitration clauses to skeptical Nevada justices in its case with former coach Jon Gruden, the NCAA approved more NIL guidelines while dinging Florida State University for a related infraction, and a retaliation suit against Louisiana State University over alleged sexual harassment was tossed.
January 09, 2024
The Second Circuit shut down comedian Michael Rapaport's defamation suit against Barstool Sports on Tuesday, finding that the blog's insults against the comedian were clearly hyperbolic exaggerations or opinions expressed during a vulgar public feud.
November 15, 2023
Amid an oral argument that aired profane insults, the Second Circuit on Wednesday pondered whether a "reasonable observer" would believe unsupported claims made by the politically incorrect staffers of the Barstool Sports website and blog that comedian Michael Rapaport had herpes and abused an ex-girlfriend.
November 09, 2023
This coming week, Amazon will urge the Second Circuit to reverse a lower court judge's injunction in a National Labor Relations Board lawsuit that ordered the company to stop firing workers for their union activity. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
April 26, 2023
Comedian Michael Rapaport pushed to revive his defamation case against Barstool Sports on Wednesday, telling the Second Circuit the blog's attacks on him were more than hyperbole, prompting its founder to remark he was "shocked [Rapaport is] still alive."
April 17, 2023
Barstool Sports has blasted actor Michael Rapaport's appeal against it in a defamation suit stemming from the off-color sports blog's firing of Rapaport in 2020, saying he had it "entirely backwards."