Sports & Betting

  • October 29, 2024

    Canadian Co. Owes $7.5M Default Judgment In Toxic Mud Suit

    A Georgia federal judge has awarded a nationwide class of customers more than $7.5 million in damages in litigation alleging Canadian company BlackOxygen sold them mud-based nutritional supplements containing harmful levels of toxic heavy metals after the company failed to respond to their claims.

  • October 29, 2024

    Baseball Bat Cos. Reach Deal To End Fla. Trademark Battle

    A baseball bat company owned by ex-MLB player Yoenis Céspedes has settled an intellectual property lawsuit against several businesses over baseball bats, months after a Florida federal judge handed the former New York Mets outfielder's business a preliminary injunction in the case.

  • October 29, 2024

    Sports Betting Co. Sued For Spamming Consumers With Texts

    The Sports Prophets, a company that provides stats and predictions for sports gamblers to aid them in betting, has been slapped with a proposed class action accusing it of continuing to pelt customers with marketing text messages after they opted out.

  • October 29, 2024

    NBA Angles To Keep Sensitive Media Rights Info Under Wraps

    Litigation over the National Basketball Association's broadcast rights lurched ahead Tuesday as the league published carefully redacted documents detailing its negotiations with media heavyweights while asking a New York state court to keep sensitive details under wraps.

  • October 29, 2024

    Roberto Clemente's Family Drops Bias Suit Against Allstate

    A long-running discrimination lawsuit against Allstate, filed by the insurance agency run by the son of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, has officially come to a close with a Tuesday dismissal following a settlement reached last month.

  • October 29, 2024

    Front Office Sports Sued For Using Luxury Real Estate Photos

    Private equity-backed media outlet Front Office Sports is accused of unlawfully using luxury real estate photos online without permission, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

  • October 28, 2024

    Casinos End Dispute With Fla. Tribe, Agree To Partner

    Several Florida casino operators have promised to end litigation against Seminole Tribe of Florida over an agreement with the state government allowing the tribe to receive online sports bets, instead agreeing to partner with the tribe to offer and promote gambling through an app, the tribe announced Monday.

  • October 28, 2024

    Investment Firm's Head Indicted For Alleged Ponzi Scheme

    Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment accusing a Utah man of carrying out a Ponzi scheme to embezzle millions of dollars from private investors who believed they were contributing to restaurant ventures.

  • October 28, 2024

    $4M Settlement Over NBA-Themed NFTs Gets Final OK

    A New York federal judge on Monday granted final approval to a $4 million settlement between the firm behind NBA-focused non-fungible tokens and a class of purchasers who accused the digital assets company of selling the tokens as unregistered securities, and awarded roughly a third of the settlement fund in attorney fees.

  • October 28, 2024

    Calif. Court OKs $1.2M Award In Polo Club TM Fight

    A California federal judge has said a Santa Barbara County-based polo club is entitled to $1.2 million in fees, costs and interest as part of a trademark dispute over a "Beverly Hills Polo Club" logo following arbitration.

  • October 28, 2024

    Supreme Court Keeps 5th Circuit Horse Racing Ruling On Ice

    A Fifth Circuit ruling that declared the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's oversight of federal horse safety regulation to be unconstitutional was put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday while it decides whether to hear the authority's appeal.

  • October 28, 2024

    FuboTV Fights To Keep Broadcast Bundling Under Scrutiny

    Sports streaming service FuboTV is pushing to keep its antitrust claims against the content distribution used by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery in court, telling a New York federal judge such arrangements "freeze out" smaller distributors.

  • October 28, 2024

    Calif. Raceway Owner Sued For ADA-Deficient Facility

    A man with disabilities has filed a civil rights lawsuit in California federal court against a racetrack that holds a NASCAR event, alleging he has encountered numerous barriers that have prevented him from having full access to the facility.

  • October 28, 2024

    Mich. Firm Can't Get More Fees From Nassar Suits, Jury Finds

    A Michigan federal jury said Monday a personal injury firm already got what it was owed as local counsel for survivors of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, rejecting the firm's claims against a Colorado firm for another $500,000.

  • October 25, 2024

    Sports Co. Says SEC's $4M Damages Bid Spells Disaster

    A multimillion-dollar securities fraud judgment against two companies linked to a virtual sports trading platform would be disastrous for the already-struggling organizations, their attorney argued before a D.C. federal judge Friday.

  • October 25, 2024

    Lemonade Co. Sues Brewers' Affiliate Over Deal Gone Sour

    A lemonade and nuts vendor is suing a minor league affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers in Mississippi federal court, alleging that the team caved in to pressure from the Coca-Cola Co. and abruptly terminated an agreement that allowed the merchant to sell his items at home games.

  • October 25, 2024

    Green Group Blames NJ For Decline In Sturgeon Population

    The state of New Jersey isn't doing enough to prevent the accidental catching of endangered fish, activists said in a lawsuit accusing the state's Department of Environmental Protection of violating the Endangered Species Act.

  • October 25, 2024

    Seminole Tribe Looks To Dismiss Gaming Ad Suit

    The Seminole Tribe of Florida asked a Florida federal court to dismiss a proposed class suit claiming ads from the tribe's gaming vendor are misleading, arguing that the suit cannot continue without the tribe as a party, but the tribe cannot be added as a party because of sovereign immunity.

  • October 25, 2024

    Wrongful Firing Suit Alleges Clippers Mishandled Star's Health

    A former trainer for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers has filed a wrongful termination suit in California state court against the team, alleging he was fired after raising concerns about the health of star forward Kawhi Leonard.

  • October 25, 2024

    Off The Bench: Toss-Up For Ohtani Ball, UFC Fighters' Payday

    In this week's Off The Bench, the three claimants to a historic baseball now know how much is at stake for the winner, a long fight against wage suppression for mixed martial arts fighters is a step closer to ending, and WNBA players want a bigger piece of a growing revenue pie.

  • October 25, 2024

    'Starting Point' Algorithm Enough To Fix Prices, DOJ Says

    The Justice Department is using the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court to argue that just because an algorithm only set "starting points" doesn't make its use legal, in a Ninth Circuit amicus brief backing efforts to revive a room rate lawsuit against Las Vegas casino hotels.

  • October 25, 2024

    NY Won't Alter Date For Mascot Ban, Court Told

    The New York Board of Regents won't postpone a deadline for the state's public schools to get rid of any Indigenous names, mascots and logos, it told a federal district court in a challenge by three school districts over the ban.

  • October 25, 2024

    NCAA Creating Cloudy Future As It Clings To Control

    Experts speaking at a symposium from Temple University's Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia drove home the point that the NCAA's multibillion-dollar court settlement providing damages and revenue to past and future college athletes falls far short of settling the remaining challenges to its control of college sports.

  • October 25, 2024

    Cleveland Browns Sue City To Protect Stadium Move Plan

    The Cleveland Browns took their city to Ohio federal court to protect their plan to move the NFL team to an adjacent town, saying a Buckeye State law restricting how and when sports teams can move out of taxpayer-supported stadiums is unconstitutional.

  • October 24, 2024

    Michael Jordan's Team Calls NASCAR A 'Monopolistic Bully'

    NASCAR is acting like a "monopolistic bully" by deflecting a bid for expedited information in an antitrust suit, a pair of racing teams, including one owned by Michael Jordan, told a North Carolina federal court.

Expert Analysis

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • Perspectives

    Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Insurance Likely Kept Swift Out Of The Woods After Vienna

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    Financial losses Taylor Swift incurred from the cancellation of three concerts in Vienna in August will likely be covered by insurance policies, considering how the facts of the situation differ from those of the Foo Fighters' 2015 insurance dispute over event cancellation and terrorism coverage, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • What's In The Cards For CFTC's Election Betting Case

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    A D.C. federal judge's Sept. 12 ruling, allowing KalshiEx to offer derivative contracts trading on the outcome of the U.S. congressional elections over objections from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, could mark a watershed moment in the permissibility of election betting if upheld on appeal, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • How NLRB Memo Balances Schools' Labor, Privacy Concerns

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    Natale DiNatale at Robinson & Cole highlights the recent National Labor Relations Board advice memorandum that aims to help colleges reconcile competing obligations under the National Labor Relations Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as university students flock toward unionization.

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