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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - August 2024

Kaufman & Canoles on 8/6/2024

Streaming service Fubo has told a NY federal court that ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up with others to knock down its “sports-first streaming business,” but what Fubo calls anticompetitive behavior, the...more

K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - June 2024 #3

Kaufman & Canoles on 6/19/2024

The U.S. Twirling Association and a coach must pay nearly $4.2 million to a baton twirler who was sexually assaulted as a minor during a sponsored international trip, a New York federal jury has found, saying the organization...more

Why Ontario Employers Should Review Employment Contracts Now

Bennett Jones LLP on 8/18/2022

Key Highlights - - Employers likely need to update terms in employment contracts on termination provisions, restrictive covenants and arbitration clauses. - Five practical tips for Ontario employers as they review and...more

Lights, Camera, Legal Action: Avoiding Employment Pitfalls in the Film and Studio Industry

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 2/17/2022

In the wake of the deadly Rust tragedy last year, independent studios and production companies began revisiting their practices, policies, and attitudes regarding safety on set....more

Sports and Entertainment Spotlight: Member of the ROC Figure Skating Team Is Suspected of a Doping Scandal, and Former Miami...

Foster Garvey PC on 2/11/2022

Welcome back, and in case you’ve been living under a rock (unless it’s a "30 Rock"), two of the biggest sporting events will command millions upon millions of eyeballs for NBC this weekend with the Winter Olympics (already in...more

The Top 18 Workplace Law Stories from August 2021

Fisher Phillips on 9/9/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

California Employment Legislative Update: Time for Governor Newsom to Get to Work

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/4/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Legislature has passed a series of employment-related bills for Governor Newsom to consider. He has until September 30 to approve or veto these bills, most of which relate to leaves of...more

Dark Day For Hollywood – Law Prohibiting Online Publication Of Actors’ Ages Is Struck Down

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 8/4/2020

IMDb.com Inc. v. Becerra, 962 F.3d 1111 (9th Cir. 2020) - The Ninth Circuit has affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of IMDb.com, a website that lists, among other things, the actual ages of...more

Reminder: New California Employment Laws Going Into Effect January 1, 2020

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/17/2019

• Numerous new California laws going into effect on January 1, 2020, will impact employers and employees. • The most significant laws include a new employee classification law, extension of the statute of limitations for...more

California AB 5 in Entertainment, Media and Advertising

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/23/2019

As previously reported, Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law AB 5. The controversial law narrowing the classification of independent contractors was aimed at companies like Uber and Lyft. But what does it mean for...more

California Employment Legislative Update: Governor Newsom Gets to Work

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/20/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Legislature has passed a series of bills for Governor Newsom to consider. He now has until October 13 to approve or veto bills such as a Dynamex codification bill and a San Francisco-inspired...more

Dark Day For Hollywood – Law Prohibiting Online Publication Of Actors’ Ages Is Unconstitutional!

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 2/26/2018

A federal court has struck down as unconstitutional a California law (AB 1687) that prohibits commercial online services from publishing actors’ ages without their consent. The law, which the California legislature enacted in...more

New California Labor and Employment Laws for 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/14/2017

• The California Legislature passed numerous labor and employment bills that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2017. • Many of the new laws relate to wages and hours, leaves and benefits, hiring practices, health and...more

Actors’ Ages to Remain Available Online (At Least for Now)

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 2/24/2017

A federal court has granted IMDb’s request for a preliminary injunction to allow the entertainment website to keep actors’ ages in their online profiles – despite the enactment of a statute in California prohibiting same....more

California Employment Law Notes - October 2016

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 10/26/2016

Newly Enacted California Statutes - Minimum Wage Increases - As of January 1, 2017, businesses with 26 or more employees must pay a minimum wage of $10.50 per hour; the rate increases to $15.00 per hour in 2022....more

2016 California Labor and Employment Legislation Update: It’s Final!

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/4/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers in California: be aware and prepare for new laws increasing minimum wages and mandating overtime pay for agricultural employees; expanding the California Fair Pay Act to race and ethnicity and to...more

New California Law Will Require Online Entertainment Database Sites to Remove Age-Based Information

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 10/3/2016

California’s governor has signed into law a bill aimed at discouraging discriminatory age hiring practices in the entertainment industry. The law focuses on internet websites identifying ages, but critics question whether...more

CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing Actors to Delete Their Age from Online Profiles

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 9/30/2016

On September 24, 2016, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed A.B. 1687 – a measure aimed at preventing age discrimination against film, television, and other professionals in the entertainment industry whose ages could be viewed...more

Cooling hot political buttons

FordHarrison on 5/31/2016

During every political campaign, I am reminded of the notion that if we speak about our co-workers or subordinates in the manner in which the American voter speaks about political candidates, we should expect some remediation...more

‘I was not told there would be math’

FordHarrison on 4/21/2016

Saturday Night Live has made invaluable contributions to American humor, but the best may be the show’s political parodies. Chevy Chase was famous for mocking Gerald Ford’s clumsy reputation (undeserved, for sure, considering...more

Age, sex, and sports media

FordHarrison on 12/28/2015

Sports reporter Colleen Dominguez is 54 years old and has enjoyed a successful career in sports journalism including a lengthy stint at ESPN. Dominguez recently jumped to Fox Sports 1 and believes her age and gender are the...more

A New Internship Standard The Second Circuits Seven Factor Test and What it Means for Your Company

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/14/2015

On July 2, 2015, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision regarding the employment status of unpaid interns that should prove helpful to employers. In Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., Nos. 13-4478 and...more

Second Circuit Outlines The Way for Employers to Hire Unpaid Interns

Genova Burns LLC on 7/13/2015

On July 2, 2015, in a matter of first impression, the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., Nos. 13-4478, 13-4481 (2d Cir. July 2, 2015), and provided a new test for whether a worker can...more

WDW Not the 'Happiest Place on Earth' for Some Disney Performers

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 5/1/2015

When three Walt Disney World performers complained that their "Lion King" character costumes were too dirty to wear for their upcoming performance they were fired last summer, but an arbitrator has now ordered their...more

The Price is Wrong: California Court OKs a New Trial in Game Show Model’s Pregnancy Bias Case

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/2/2015

Cochran v. FremantleMedia North America, Inc., No. B247541 (December 11, 2014): In a recent unpublished ruling, the California Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court’s order granting a new trial in a case brought by a game...more

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