Navigate the ever-changing employment law circus at our Richmond Employment Law Symposium. As legal rules continue to shift like contortionists, employers need practical strategies to stay compliant. The K&C Employment Law…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Professional swimmers have reached a settlement ending their claims accusing the sport’s international governing body of organizing a group boycott against an upstart league, while the league’s antitrust claims against the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property
A former Major League Soccer marketing executive sued the league in New York federal court Friday, alleging he was fired in retaliation for repeatedly complaining of racial discrimination by his superiors…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment Law
The House Settlement has arrived. Colleges, universities, and athletes are all scrambling to make sense of the settlement, figure out what it means for them, and position themselves to maximize their opportunities in the next…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Education Law
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday threatened the state of California with legal action after the state refused to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports as demanded by President Donald Trump‘s…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Intellectual Property
On June 6, Judge Claudia Wilken of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California approved a settlement agreement between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), power conferences, and…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Education Law
Last week, the Court of Appeals of Virginia issued a significant 24-page opinion in David Tidwell, et al. v. Kenneth. M Goldsmith, et al., Record No. 0629-24-1 and Record No. 0666-24-1, in consolidated cases concerning the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Real Estate - Residential
Jonathan Barnett, once named the “World’s Most Powerful Sports Agent” by Forbes, is accused of forcing an Australian woman to serve as his “sex slave,” while his sports agency within Creative Artists Agency ignored the “obvious…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law
On behalf of the K&C ESOPs, Benefits & Compensation team, welcome to summer! In an interesting turn of events, major legislation that we typically see toward the end of the year landed on the Fourth of July in the form of the…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
A Raleigh basketball scout and life coach was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a COVID-19 fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said Monday…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law, Family Law
The PGA Tour announced a significant structural change Tuesday hiring longtime NFL executive Brian Rolapp as the first CEO in the organization’s history while beginning the transition away from commissioner Jay Monahan, who will…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Professional Malpractice
A former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking the personal information and intimate photos of thousands of students has asked a Michigan federal judge to set aside a default entry against him,…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
On June 6, Judge Claudia Wilken of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California approved a settlement agreement between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”), power conferences, and…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Education Law
The New York State Education Department said it won’t rescind a ban on the use of Indigenous mascots and names in public schools despite a threat from the Trump administration to pull its federal funding, telling the U.S…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Intellectual Property
Two NASCAR Cup Series race teams, 23XI Racing, an organization co-owned by basketball star Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, are engaged in litigation against NASCAR regarding claims of antitrust violations against the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts
