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Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Moving Your Infractions Case Along and Avoiding the Next One
In the nine years I served on the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions (COI), we processed roughly 120 major infractions cases. Most were handled through in-person hearings, but a…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Court Dismisses NCAA from Lawsuit Related to UNC’s Academic Fraud Scandal
District Court Judge Loretta Biggs has dismissed the NCAA from the putative class action filed by former UNC-Chapel Hill women’s basketball player Rashanda McCants and former UNC football player Devon…
DuetsBlog
March Isn’t Just for Madness, It’s For CRAFTNESS
-Martha Engel, Attorney Here's hoping your 2016 brackets did better than mine last week, but this has been quite a crazy and exciting tournament thus far. As a Marquette fan,…
The Right Coast
Middle Tennessee St Upsets No. 2 Seed Michigan State, 90-81 – ABC News
Relying on the same balanced scoring that carried them to the NCAA Tournament, the No. 15 seed Blue Raiders ended the second-seeded Spartans' title hopes in convincing fashion Friday. They…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10: More March Madness, Scandalous Marks, and Cuba
Well now that we're over the hump of Super Tuesday 3 (or whatever we're calling yesterday's primaries) guess it's time we address the elephant in the room: How do we…
Broadcast Law Blog
It’s March Madness! Know the NCAA’s Rulebook or Risk A Foul Call Against the Unauthorized Use of Its Trademarks
Two months ago, I wrote here about the risks of publishing ads or engaging in promotional activities that refer to the Super Bowl” without approval of the NFL. Now, with…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Indiana Court Rejects Claim that Scholar-Athletes Are Employees under FLSA
Last week, an Indiana federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by former University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) athletes against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) and a number of its member…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Bitcoin, Krusty Krab, and Bad Guys
It's a rainy day in Seattle but it continues to be a week with plenty of legal blogging. Let's get to it. Spongebob Suitpants: Viacom Sues Proposed "Krusty Krab" Restaurant…
All About Advertising Law
When It Comes to the Year’s Biggest Sporting Events, Don’t Fumble Your Ad Campaign
By Michael S. Isselin, Melissa Landau Steinman
[caption id="attachment_3719" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Jim G [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr[/caption]Will the Patriots’ dreams of heading to this year’s Super Bowl® get deflated? What, exactly, will Olympic® gold…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NCAA Changes Course: High School Baseball Draftees Allowed To Hire Agents
The NCAA has voted to modify its existing rules dramatically to permit high school baseball players drafted in the Major League Baseball (MLB) amateur draft to hire agents to negotiate…