After a nearly four-year battle, delayed by COVID-19 and the untimely death of the initial arbitrator assigned to the case, former University of Connecticut men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie has been determined to have been improperly terminated and was
Latest from Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog - Page 5
Major League Baseball Owners Use “Only Tool Available” To Lockout Players
Major League Baseball (MLB) exercised its legal right and remedy guaranteed pursuant to current federal labor laws when it commenced a lockout of its players shortly after the five-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between MLB and the Major League Baseball
High School Student-Athletes Asserting Name, Image, and Likeness Rights Moves to Forefront
Not only are name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights being asserted in collegiate sports, high school athletics are beginning to experience expansion of NIL rights as well.
After the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced it would no longer enforce
First NLRB Charge Filed Alleging Student-Athletes Are Employees Since NLRB General Counsel’s Memorandum
Unable to find a student-athlete willing to file an unfair labor practice charge to support the effort of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to reclassify student-athletes as “employees” as defined in the National Labor Relations
Bipartisan Federal Legislation Introduced to Drastically Modify NCAA’s Current Infractions Process
A little more than two years ago, James Wiseman was the University of Memphis’ prize recruit expected to lead that school back to the Final Four. Now, following his very limited college career that was plagued by allegations of NCAA
Leadership Failure: Chicago Blackhawks Organization and the NHLPA
Inaction in Face of Sexual Assault Allegation
A 20-year-old player in the Chicago Blackhawks organization, Kyle Beach, filed a lawsuit against the team in May 2021 alleging he was sexually assaulted by the team’s video coordinator in May 2010, while
Texas Bill Restricting Transgender Student-Athlete Sports Participation About to Become Law
Texas House Bill 25, “The Save Women’s Sports Bill,” would bar public school students from participating in interscholastic athletic opportunities designated for the opposite “biological sex.”
The proposed legislation was passed by the Texas State Senate by a 19-12 margin,
University Policy Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for Student-Athletes Blocked by Sixth Circuit
As vaccination mandates continue to be a topic of discussion and discord in the workplace, the world of college athletics is not exempt from similar mandatory vaccine controversy.
The First Amendment rights of 16 student-athletes seeking a religious exemption as
NLRB’s General Counsel Uses Prosecutorial Authority to Assert Student-Athletes Are Employees
The on-and-off effort at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify “student-athletes” as “employees” has renewed. Although the National Labor Relations Act contains no formal recognition of student-athletes as employees, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum on
UPDATE: Federal Judge Allows Student-Athletes Wage and Hour Claims Against the NCAA to Continue
The NCAA must defend claims that they are a joint employer from student-athletes seeking to be paid for the time they spend participating in collegiate athletic activities. Despite U.S. District Court Judge John Padova’s dismissal with prejudice of wage and