Sports and Compliance: All Things Dodgers
State AG Pulse | America’s Pastime Unites AGs
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Could a Trademark Search Have Saved ‘The Cleveland Indians’ Botched Rebrand?
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Could a Trademark Search Have Saved ‘The Cleveland Indians’ Botched Rebrand?
Compliance Perspectives: Sign Stealing in the MLB
Why Bud Selig's Tactics in Pursuing A-Rod for PEDs are a "Circus"
Baseball Lures Justice Alito to Dallas, & Why the Texas Bar Has the Best Annual Meeting
Yankees' Lawyer on Manchester City MLS Partnership
After Trademark Ruling, Yankees are Officially "The Evil Empire"
On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host John Wilson and co-host Trevor Gates are joined by Fred Rivera, former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Seattle Mariners. Rivera describes his time with the...more
Welcome to Season 2 of Sports and Compliance. For the longest time, Tom Fox has wanted to have a podcast on the intersection of Sports and the World of Compliance and Ethics, both for those stories as they play out on the...more
The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more
The Moneyball revolution that transformed baseball just turned 20 years old. The principles applied by Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s have impacted not just baseball but multiple professional sports. However, two decades...more
April is synonymous with so many things – spring flowers, the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, and of course, the return of America’s pastime, Major League Baseball (MLB). However, MLB fans of several teams are likely...more
The players say, “No thanks.” Florida and California are seen as polar opposites when it comes to policy and lawmaking. However, there is at least one thing they seem to agree on – minor league baseball players should be...more
Parents of ball player will get their day in court. Ryan Costello was a promising young baseball player. After being drafted in the 31st round of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft by the Seattle Mariners, and later...more
Open for negotiations. Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Federal Baseball case of 1922 that baseball was not interstate commerce, Major League Baseball has enjoyed an exemption from antitrust law. The Supreme...more
Will Congress go for it? On April 3, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to the first-ever collective bargaining agreement covering minor league baseball players. As I previously discussed, this...more
What qualifies as the United States’ current favorite sport may be a subject for heated debate, but “America’s Pastime” and its biggest stars still have significant power over the public—and, apparently, the Trademark Trial...more
In a decision that stunned no one (yet will garner plenty of headlines), a federal district court granted a motion to dismiss filed by Major League Baseball (MLB) on the basis of its storied antitrust immunity. Coming almost...more
The game has changed. On August 29, the Major League Baseball Players Association, the union representing players in Major League Baseball, announced that it was assisting players in Minor League Baseball in seeking to...more
For more than a century, minor league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) have thrived in a symbiotic relationship. Minor league teams affiliate with major league teams for financial support and access to major league...more
We were off by about 10 days. When we published An Employer’s Guide to the Baseball Lockout: Answering Your Questions About the First MLB Work Stoppage in Almost 30 Years way back at the beginning of December, we predicted...more
In one of the largest developments in professional sports in years, the 2022 baseball season is in jeopardy because of the Major League Baseball Lockout: team owners and players have not been able to agree on a new collective...more
For the first time since the 1994-1995 seasons, Major League Baseball has entered a work stoppage – and you have questions. What led to this point? What is a lockout versus a strike? What are the two sides fighting over? And...more
Back to our regularly scheduled programming: Fresh off of my paternity leave in which feeding and putting to sleep my baby was my charge, I have the distinct privilege of resuming my commentary portion of the Spotlight. With...more
In this week’s episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the Cleveland Indians' attempt to rebrand as the Cleveland Guardians, and the complications that arose surrounding that...more
In this week’s episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the Cleveland Indian’s attempt to rebrand as the Cleveland Guardians, and the complications that arose surrounding that...more
Can one team play in two cities (or countries)? The Tampa Bay Rays have proposed a "sister city" plan, allowing the MLB team to play one half of the season in the Tampa Bay area and the remainder in Montreal, split between...more
It’s hard to read the news these days without seeing the dramatic effect of COVID-19 on professional and collegiate sports. Among others, a number of professional athletes have opted out of their respective seasons, Major...more
We’ve all been there—that incredible moment when our favorite team is driving down the field for the go-ahead touchdown, has runners in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth inning, or has a penalty kick in the 89th...more
In a news cycle dominated by labor negotiations between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), pressing Minor League Baseball (MiLB) issues have been relegated to a footnote. ...more
Was Unternehmen aus einem der größten Baseball-Skandale lernen können - Selten hatte die juristische Aufarbeitung sportlicher Verfehlungen einen so großen Nachhall wie zuletzt beim „Sign Stealing“ in der Major League...more
This spring, two major sports teams were caught cheating. Both are consistent championship contenders in recent years. In the United States, hardly any sports fan could have missed the report released by Major League...more