Sports & Betting

  • June 26, 2026

    Quinnipiac Athletes Say Team Downgrade Was Title IX Payback

    Quinnipiac University should be stopped from demoting its women's rugby team from varsity to club status because the school seized the earliest opportunity to retaliate against a coach who raised Title IX complaints, current and recruited players told a Connecticut federal judge Friday.

  • June 26, 2026

    PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades

    The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.

  • June 26, 2026

    Kalshi Loses Bid To Keep Mich. Gambling Suit In Fed. Court

    A Michigan federal judge has remanded to state court a suit by Michigan's attorney general against Kalshi over claims the prediction market platform is violating state gambling laws, finding Kalshi failed to sufficiently argue that the suit should remain in federal court.

  • June 26, 2026

    Polymarket Tricks Young People Into Gambling, Suit Says

    An association of attorneys and consumer advocates accused Polymarket and its executives Friday of crafting "flagrantly deceptive and unfair marketing" that draws Americans, especially college students, to its prediction market platform.

  • June 26, 2026

    Pistons Owner's PE Firm Sued Over $1B Margin Loan

    A Delaware pension fund has filed a derivative suit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing a private equity firm of exploiting its control over a technology distributor to secure a multibillion-dollar margin loan that allegedly violated the company's own governance policies while exposing the company and its minority stockholders to significant financial risk.

  • June 26, 2026

    Ex-Cal Basketball Player Sues NCAA Over Age Eligibility Rule

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association was sued in Illinois federal court Thursday by a proposed class of athletes challenging a new policy that restricts players to five years of eligibility with no opportunity for "redshirting" or other eligibility waivers, arguing it imposes "restrictions that arbitrarily and disparately cut short college athletes' ability to compete."

  • June 26, 2026

    Trans Sprinter's Bias Suit Against NY College Can Go Forward

    A New York state judge trimmed a transgender athlete's discrimination suit over being banned from a university's track meet, but preserved her claim that the school wrongly based its decision on President Donald Trump's executive order barring transgender women from competition.

  • June 26, 2026

    Athletes Vow To Fight Magistrate Judge's Ruling On NIL Deal

    A California federal magistrate judge has rejected a request from a class of college athletes to exempt multimedia rights companies and third-party brand sponsor deals from a landmark $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement with the NCAA, a decision the class said Friday it'll appeal to the district judge overseeing the case.

  • June 26, 2026

    NJ Panel Vacates $1M In Damages Awarded For Boating Injury

    A New Jersey appellate panel Friday vacated a jury's award of nearly $1 million to a woman who broke her back on her longtime friend's boat, ruling that the trial court should have granted the defense's bid to extend discovery in order to respond to medical evidence presented on the eve of trial.

  • June 26, 2026

    Red Bull Not Covered In Promotion Injury Suit, Court Told

    Red Bull isn't entitled to coverage for fraud claims brought by a Pittsburgh TV reporter who was injured while participating in a promotional event staged by the energy drink company, a capital provider for a Lloyd's of London underwriter told a Pennsylvania federal court.

  • June 26, 2026

    Judge Junks Counterclaims In Suit Over Ex-Eagle's Injury Win

    A trio of doctors don't have to indemnify the law firm of O'Brien & Ryan LLP in a suit brought by their clinic, as a Pennsylvania judge sided with the doctors' argument that their treatment of former Philadelphia Eagles player Chris Maragos was distinct from the legal malpractice claim their clinic had brought against the firm.

  • June 26, 2026

    High Court To Issue Big Decisions In Term's Final Days

    As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final days of its term, the justices still have several major decisions to issue, including some concerning birthright citizenship, the president's power to remove independent agency officials, transgender athletes and election rules. 

  • June 26, 2026

    Caesars Expands Maine Tribal IGaming Agreement Amid Suit

    Caesars Entertainment Inc. says it has expanded an existing partnership with three of Maine's Wabanaki Nations to include online casino gambling within the state, with a launch date this year, pending regulatory approvals.

  • June 25, 2026

    Sens. Want CFTC Restricted From Prediction Markets Suits

    A group of 17 Democratic senators has called on a U.S. Senate subcommittee to prohibit the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from using federal funds to prevent states and tribes from enforcing their gambling laws against prediction markets as litigation over the legality of their offerings continues to spread.

  • June 25, 2026

    CFTC, Prediction Market Trade Group Back Kalshi At 6th Circ.

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a prediction market trade group are pressing the Sixth Circuit to affirm sole federal oversight of event contracts in separate briefs that argued state gambling laws are a poor fit to regulate trading on real-world events.

  • June 25, 2026

    Kalshi Says NM Tribes Lack Power Over Its Sports Contracts

    Kalshi is asking a New Mexico district court to dismiss a challenge by four Indigenous nations trying to block the prediction market platform from offering online sports betting within Indian Country, arguing that allowing the tribes to exercise regulatory authority will enable hundreds of other tribes to follow suit.

  • June 25, 2026

    SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Blasts 'Inflated' DOJ Tax Math

    Convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and federal prosecutors are clashing again over their dramatically divergent sentencing recommendations, with the defense accusing the government of presenting a "one-dimensional caricature" of the famed lawyer in seeking an eight-year sentence, and prosecutors accusing him of potentially deleting "secret chats" with his gambling backers.

  • June 25, 2026

    Players Say NCAA's New Eligibility Rules Freeze Them Out

    A group of college basketball players claim in a suit in Ohio state court that the NCAA's newly approved eligibility rules unjustly exclude them by barring athletes who began college in 2022 from playing a fifth season.

  • June 25, 2026

    'Wemby' TM Bid Falsely Suggests NBA Star Link, TTAB Rules

    The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has rejected an apparel company's bid to register "Wemby," ruling in a precedential opinion that the term falsely suggests a connection with San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama and, as his nickname, identifies him without his written consent.

  • June 25, 2026

    NFL Players Union, Former In-House Atty Settle Dispute

    The NFL Players Association and its former longtime associate general counsel have told a federal court in Washington, D.C. that they've reached a tentative agreement to settle the former in-house lawyer's $10 million sex discrimination and retaliation suit against the association.

  • June 25, 2026

    Zillow, Redfin Tell Court Their Partnership Is Not Illegal

    Property listing companies Zillow and Redfin urged a Virginia federal court not to presume that their $100 million partnership agreement, which is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple states, is illegal before it holds an August trial for a consolidated antitrust suit.

  • June 25, 2026

    11th Circ. Revives Cheerleading 'Worlds' Trademark Suit

    The Eleventh Circuit has revived U.S. All Star Federation's lawsuit alleging a rival ripped off the competitive cheerleading organizational body's signature event's name, saying there were factual issues over the nature of the trademarks at issue.

  • June 24, 2026

    Quinnipiac Rugby Title IX Case Leaves Judge Feeling 'Terrible'

    Quinnipiac University and 23 rugby players accusing the school of Title IX violations should focus summations on a retaliation claim, not a discrimination claim, because retaliation presents a "stickier" legal question based on facts gleaned during a two-day hearing, a Connecticut federal judge said Wednesday.

  • June 24, 2026

    Mass. AG Looks To Add Underage User Claims To Kalshi Suit

    The state of Massachusetts wants to expand its lawsuit alleging Kalshi offers unlicensed sports betting to add claims that the prediction market permits users under 21 and people on the state's gambling self-exclusion list to place bets.

  • June 24, 2026

    Kentucky Is Latest State To Catch CFTC Prediction Market Suit

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has hit back against Kentucky regulators with a suit defending its jurisdiction over event contracts, after the state brought enforcement actions against several prediction market platforms alleging they violate the state's consumer protection and gambling laws by offering unlicensed sports wagering.

Expert Analysis

  • 1st-Of-Its-Kind NIL Claim Raises Liability Coverage Questions

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    The University of Georgia Athletic Association recently sought to compel arbitration against former UGA football player Damon Wilson in a first-of-its-kind legal action for breach of a name, image and likeness contract, highlighting questions around student-athlete employment classification and professional liability insurance coverage, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • How Fed. Circ. Shaped Subject Matter Eligibility In 2025

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    The Federal Circuit's most impactful patent eligibility decisions this year, touching on questions about obviousness and abstractness, provide a toolbox of takeaways that can be utilized during patent preparation and prosecution to guard against potential challenges, says Reilley Keane at Banner Witcoff.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

  • Series

    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

  • The Ohio Supreme Court In 2025: A Focus On Civil Procedure

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    ​​​​​​​If 2025 will be remembered for any particular theme at the Ohio Supreme Court, it might just be the justices' focus on procedural issues, including in three cases concerning, respectively, proper service, response time and pleading standards, says Bradfield Hughes at Porter Wright.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

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    New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

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    Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

  • Considerations When Invoking The Common-Interest Privilege

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    To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • NBA Gambling Probes Highlight Sports Betting's Broad Risks

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    Recent NBA gambling scandals illustrate the integrity risks arising from legal sports betting, but organizations, which must navigate a patchwork of state laws, can protect their reputations by drafting and enforcing internal policies to address betting-related risks and complying with league and institutional rules, say attorneys at Littler.

  • AG Watch: Ohio's Prediction Market Preemption Battle

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    Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is playing a significant part in two cases involving Kalshi before the Third Circuit and the Southern District of Ohio, the latest in a growing string of court battles regarding which regulations govern prediction markets that will have notable consequences on sports gambling nationwide, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Making The Case To Combine

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    When making the decision to merge, law firm leaders must factor in strategic alignment, cultural compatibility and leadership commitment in order to build a compelling case for combining firms to achieve shared goals and long-term success, says Kevin McLaughlin at UB Greensfelder.

  • Opinion

    Despite Deputy AG Remarks, DOJ Can't Sideline DC Bar

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    Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent suggestion that the D.C. Bar would be prevented from reviewing misconduct complaints about U.S. Department of Justice attorneys runs contrary to federal statutes, local rules and decades of case law, and sends the troubling message that federal prosecutors are subject to different rules, say attorneys at HWG.

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