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Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
New Antitrust Suit Takes Aim at NCAA Model
The NCAA’s amateurism model is once again under fire — this time in an antitrust lawsuit filed by sports labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler. Kessler, on behalf of four named current…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Student Gridiron “Workers” Team With Steelworkers To Forge Union at Northwestern
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen, Jackson Lewis P.C.
If the newly formed College Athletes Players Association (“CAPA”) has its way, the union will represent the football players at Northwestern University in Chicago. CAPA wants to represent college athletes…
Game Counsel
Ninth Circuit Fumbles The Ball In Videogame Likeness Cases
Edited by Ben Mulcahy, [1] Creating a new rule that gives videogames much more limited protection than other expressive works, the Ninth Circuit has ruled that realistically depicting college athletes in…
Dollars & Sense
Could Johnny Football Go To Jail?
By Admin
ESPN reported in August that Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel "...agreed to sign memorabilia in exchange for a five-figure flat fee during his trip to Miami for the Discover BCS…
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Ninth Circuit Fumbles The Ball In Videogame Likeness Cases
Edited by Ben Mulcahy A longer version of this article was recently published by Bloomberg BNA. Creating a new rule that gives videogames much more limited protection than other expressive…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NCAA Issues Half-Game Penalty To Heisman Winner For Bylaw Violation
Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel has been suspended for the first half of Texas A&M’s season opening game for an “inadvertent” violation of NCAA rules. The NCAA and Texas A&M…
DuetsBlog
The NCAA Takes a Few More Hits
- Derek Allen, Attorney - Unless you're inflicted with the most severe kind of equinophobia, you probably don't get much satisfaction from seeing a dead horse get beat. But since…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NCAA Reverses Decision, Rules Ex-Marine Eligible For 2013 Season
The NCAA has reversed its initial ruling declaring former Marine and current freshman Steve Rhodes ineligible to play football for Middle Tennessee State University this season because of his participation…
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Top 10 in Law Blogs: Drunken Facebook Posts, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, BizDev Relationships
As the NCAA amateurism controversy saw the flames grow higher this week with the NCAA having to shut down its online shop, there was even more action in the court…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Congress To Protect Athletes And Universities With Proposed National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act
Representatives Charlie Dent (R-Pennsylvania) and Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) have introduced the National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act (H.R. 2903) (http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/2903/text), in a rare bi-partisan proposal. The Act, which would halt federal…