On June 6, 2025, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved a settlement allowing NCAA schools to pay student-athletes in an agreement now simply known as The House Settlement. The House Settlement directly resolved...more
7/17/2025
/ Alston v NCAA ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Violations ,
College Athletes ,
Colleges ,
Compensation ,
Competition ,
Name and Likeness ,
NCAA ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement ,
Sports ,
Student Athletes ,
Universities
You are handing a case involving millions of pages of documentation, emails, etc., including documentation with sensitive trade secrets and intellectual property. You are under the gun to submit a brief in opposition to a...more
On June 27, 2024, a jury in the United States District Court for the Central District of California rendered a multibillion-dollar verdict in favor of restaurant/bar owners and individual customers and against the National...more
For decades, student-athletes have asserted that colleges and universities have benefitted from their participation in collegiate athletics, while the student athletes themselves receive nothing in return. A college...more
5/31/2024
/ Alston v NCAA ,
College Athletes ,
Compensation ,
Name and Likeness ,
NCAA ,
O'Bannon v NCAA ,
Popular ,
Right of Publicity ,
SCOTUS ,
Sherman Act ,
Student Athletes ,
Video Games
In 2016, a California jury decided that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” did not infringe on Randy Wolfe’s “Taurus”. However, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed that decision and has now called for a do-over,...more
10/10/2018
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Appeals ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Federal Rules of Evidence ,
Jury Instructions ,
Led Zeppelin ,
Music Publishing ,
Prejudice ,
Public Domain ,
Reversible Error