Podcast Episode 190: After the Buzzer Goes Beyond the Scores!
Peer-To-Peer Sports Betting Exchanges With Joe Caputi, Director of Compliance, Prophet Exchange
NFL’s Rooney Rule: The Flores Discrimination Suit’s Impact on DEI initiatives [More with McGlinchey Ep. 38]
Law Brief®: Daniel Wallach and Rich Schoenstein Discuss NFL and the Law
Quarterbacking Complex Legal Issues and COVID-19 for an NFL Team with Bill Heller, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the New York Giants: On Record PR
Lowndes Client Corner Podcast Episode 6: Florida Citrus Sports, Generating Economic Impact
Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 109- Does the NFL Even Care?
I-16 – Kneeling, Indefinite Leave, DC Updates, Non-Compete Consideration, and Pretty as a Protected Class
This Week in FCPA-Episode 53, the I left my heart in San Francisco edition
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 156-emergency podcast on Deflategate and the Wells Report
How Did The NFL Get This So Wrong?
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 89, interview with Jim McGrath on the NFL investigation scandal
Redskins Name Is an 'Ethnic Slur,' Says Lawyer
Inside NFL's Jaguars Owner's Fulham FC Purchase
You Have to Know a Bit About the Law to Be a Sports Fan: Brad Sham, Voice of the Cowboys
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that Illinois has joined an $82.5 million proposed antitrust settlement with Varsity Brands (Varsity). As a result, Illinois consumers who paid to participate in Varsity Brands’...more
The National Football League must pay more than $4.7 billion in class-action damages for overcharging subscribers of its “Sunday Ticket” telecasts, a California federal jury said on Thursday....more
Under Armour on Friday said it has agreed to pay $434 million to settle a 2017 class action lawsuit accusing the sports apparel maker of defrauding shareholders about its revenue growth in order to meet Wall Street forecasts....more
A Los Angeles jury has found following a monthlong trial that StubHub owes more than $16 million for breaching its contract with Spotlight Ticket Management, which does business as TicketManager, and interfering in the...more
Twenty-six current and former collegiate athletes who played in the state of Iowa filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the state and its Division of Criminal Investigation of its Department of Public Safety, alleging that...more
Florida State University is pushing for the dismissal of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s NC lawsuit, saying it was prematurely filed to preempt the university’s own suit against the conference, in an attempt to win a “race to...more
A third attorney team representing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. stockholders has signaled a tag-in for a widening Delaware Court of Chancery rumble with founder Vincent McMahon and top company officials and directors...more
Two major organizations, the NFL and investment bank Goldman Sachs, are facing fallout amid accusations of workplace discrimination and the gender pay gap. Goldman Sachs settlement- Following a gender discrimination...more
Ten former NFL players filed a proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland claiming, among other allegations, that the NFL’s disability plan engages in an “overly aggressive and...more
On October 3, 2022, a class action plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the NFL for allegedly enrolling customers in its NFL+ Premium subscription without their consent or disclosing subscription (autorenewal) billing terms, and...more
On February 1, 2022 – the first day of Black History Month – Brian Flores, the former head football coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed a class action lawsuit against his former team, as well as the New York Giants, the...more
Anyone paying attention to the sports world in the past several years is well aware of the spotlight focused on concussions and head trauma. Much of the attention has come from high-profile, class-action lawsuits against...more
Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. We hope you...more
Third-party litigation funding has received increased scrutiny over the past several years, particularly in the context of mass torts, class actions, and multidistrict litigation. Most of this scrutiny has focused on...more
Recently, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals turned the switch on a fan’s seemingly dormant class action suit against the National Football League concerning its 2014 Super Bowl Ticket Distribution Policy, which limited...more
In Technology Training Associates, Inc. v. Buccaneers Limited Partnership, No. 17-11710 (October 26, 2017), the Eleventh Circuit axed an approved class action settlement due to plaintiffs’ counsel’s apparent “desire to grab...more
This episode discusses kneeling in the NFL/workplace, indefinite leave entitlement, and sufficient consideration for non-competes, provides an update from DC on OT exemptions and class action waivers, and questions whether...more
In an unusual procedural move last week in the RD Legal Funding case about which we have previously blogged, SDNY Judge Loretta Preska (the judge presiding over the CFPB’s lawsuit against RD Legal Funding) has referred to...more
Just before the Big Game, a former cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers “Gold Rush Girls” filed a class action lawsuit against the NFL, claiming the league conspired to keep the female athletes’ pay below market value....more
The Indianapolis Colts mobile app is alleged by a putative class to record fans’ private conversations. In the putative class action, the named plaintiff alleges that the mobile app secretly activates the smart phone’s...more
In April of 2015, Pennsylvania federal district court judge Anita B. Brody approved a settlement between the National Football League (NFL) and retired football players intended to resolve thousands of concussion lawsuits...more
Two cert petitions in a football-related class action are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Gilchrist v. National Football League, case no. 16-283 and Armstrong v. National Football League. Both are scheduled to be...more
Greenberg Glusker entertainment and sports partner Glen A. Rothstein, was quoted in a Law360 article, “NFL Must Play Good Defense In DirectTV Sunday Ticket Deal Row,” (subs. required). The August 18, 2016, article looks at...more
As a child of the 60’s and 70’s and an insatiable NFL football fan, I can still hear the swaggering voice of narrator John Facenda in the now-iconic 1974 NFL Films production “The Autumn Wind,” which has been dubbed The...more
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit stopped three former NFL players at the goal line when it rejected the players’ appeal in their likeness lawsuit against the NFL. The three former players,...more