April 08, 2025
Two stock car racing teams, including one owned by Michael Jordan, have asked a Colorado federal judge to force the owner of the international racing series Formula One to turn over revenue data and other records, arguing they need the information to prove monopoly claims against NASCAR.
March 27, 2025
Michael Jordan's racing team has urged a North Carolina federal judge to toss NASCAR's counterclaim in an antitrust suit against the league, arguing that the stock car racing company has failed to lay out enough detail on the alleged cartel Jordan's team and others purportedly formed to harm its business.
March 07, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, NASCAR insists that the two teams suing it are the real antitrust bullies, the ACC keeps two valued and valuable members in the fold, and a baseball player ends his court fight to play another year in college.
March 05, 2025
NASCAR is countersuing two racing teams that have accused the organization of monopolizing premier motorsport racing, alleging Wednesday in North Carolina federal court that the teams conspired to pressure NASCAR into accepting their preferred charter contract terms "in order to maintain their per se illegal cartel."
February 14, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, litigation begins over President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender individuals from competing in women's sports, a former Arizona Cardinals executive's defamation suit against the team is shuffled to arbitration, and NASCAR asks an appeals panel to reverse wins handed to two teams in their antitrust suit.
February 13, 2025
NASCAR urged the Fourth Circuit in an opening brief to reverse injunctions that forced the organization to offer charter contracts to two teams suing the organization for alleged antitrust violations, arguing that any of the lower court's "many errors warrants reversal" and could have broader implications.
January 29, 2025
A North Carolina federal court has appointed an attorney with nearly four decades of experience at Proskauer Rose LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to mediate the antitrust feud between NASCAR and two racing teams.
January 10, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge on Friday denied NASCAR's motion to dismiss a lawsuit lodged by two racing teams that accused the organization of maintaining a monopoly, saying it is too early to determine a dismissal because the teams sufficiently alleged antitrust claims.
January 08, 2025
NASCAR implored a North Carolina federal judge on Wednesday to throw out portions of an antitrust suit brought by Michael Jordan's team and award a $36 million bond, saying it was the teams themselves who demanded the contracts they now claim are monopolistic.
January 02, 2025
NASCAR is asking the Fourth Circuit to hear its appeals of the injunctions a North Carolina federal judge granted to two racing teams, which allowed them to compete in the upcoming season and stopped the organization from enforcing its contractual ban on antitrust claims.