The Briefing: NBA Teams Fight Back Against Trolling – The Validity of the Discovery Rule at Stake
(Podcast) The Briefing: NBA Teams Fight Back Against Trolling – The Validity of the Discovery Rule at Stake
The Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Unionizes: Air Ball or Nothing But Net?
Inside the NBA with Suzanne Spellacy, General Counsel of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx and T-Wolves Gaming
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - March Madness Marketing Rebounds With a New Twist
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: March Madness Marketing Rebounds With a New Twist
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Naming Rights for LA Clippers Dome: FinTech Steps Intuit
Talking with a Time Magazine Female Sports Pioneer Ann Meyers Drysdale, Vice President of the Phoenix Suns & Mercury: On Record PR
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...more
On April 22, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) handed down harsh penalties on Fordham University’s men’s basketball program in what it referred to as a Level II “Major Infractions Case” via a negotiated...more
Welcome back to Innovation Madness, where game-changing basketball inventions go head-to-head to determine which patent truly changed the game. We’ve narrowed the field to eight elite contenders. The matchups are fierce. The...more
Recently, Pennsylvania’s Saint Francis University announced its decision to reclassify its intercollegiate athletics program from NCAA Division I to Division III, citing the difficulty in governance associated with college...more
With brackets finalized and March Madness well underway, it is probably a safe bet that many of you have the University of South Carolina’s women’s team heading to the NCAA Tournament’s final game. As of this writing, the...more
The Dartmouth men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip-off its 2024-25 NCAA season. Not surprisingly, they will do so without a labor contract, notwithstanding the team’s historic vote last March to unionize under federal...more
The ongoing battle to turn NCAA student-athletes into employees continued this week. As reported here early this year, in February, Laura Sacks, Regional Director of Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a...more
In May 2024, Caitlin Clark, the standout Iowa Hawkeyes point guard, joined the Indiana Fever. Her rookie debut coincided with an almost 200% increase in viewership for the WNBA —the so-called “Caitlin Clark Effect.” Of...more
In part two of the discussion regarding the successful unionization of the Dartmouth University men’s basketball team, our labor law insiders Tyler Paetkau and Jason Montgomery, along with host Tom Godar, offer analysis and...more
As March Madness officially begins in college basketball, it seems like the perfect opportunity to discuss the recent unionization buzz amongst college basketball athletes. Background College athletes have attempted to...more
In September 2023, fifteen members of Dartmouth College’s varsity men’s basketball team sought to join Service Employees International Union, Local 560 (“Union”), which is the “exclusive representative” of Dartmouth...more
On March 5, 2024, players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted to unionize, making the group the first college sports team to do so in the United States. Dartmouth College has already filed an appeal with the...more
The NCAA national men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will begin on March 17, 2024 and end with the national championship games in early April. Broadcast stations often conduct promotions tied to these tournaments...more
Having introduced the cast and set the scene in part 1 of this 3-part series, we turn now to the details. But before doing so, let’s get one thing out of the way – you likely won’t have unionized players on campus...more
It wasn’t cash, an NIL deal, or even an athletic scholarship, but it was compensation according to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 1 Director, Laura Sacks. By providing its men’s basketball team with apparel,...more
Reviewing the Major Plays of 2023 - This past year saw major developments in the world of college sports. From challenges to name, image and likeness (NIL) contracts to congressional hearings to proposed NCAA guidelines,...more
A three year legal battle in federal district court between NBA superstar and former Duke University standout, Zion Williamson, and his former agent was brought to a close earlier this month in the Middle District of North...more
Welcome back to the...— Is there anything you want to say to me? ...Are you sure...? ...You forgot, didn’t you...? Well let me remind you... It’s the first anniversary of this often irreverent, at times poignant,...more
A nascent “advocacy” group just opened the first front in the newest battle over the status of collegiate student-athletes under the National Labor Relations Act. The College Basketball Players Association filed a one-line...more
As readers from last week will recall, we spent some time examining the notion of credibility. One week later, we’re witnessing what credibility (or lack thereof) hath wrought on our subjects. Bob Baffert? Banned from New...more
In United States v. Gatto, the Second Circuit (Lynch, Chin, and Engelmayer, sitting by designation) issued a decision on January 15, 2021 affirming the wire-fraud convictions of James Gatto, Merl Code, and Christian Dawkins...more
As the NCAA Men’s Basketball 2020-2021 regular season schedule is about to begin in the midst of escalating coronavirus pandemic spikes and increasing hospitalizations around the country, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball...more
Once again, the Ivy League has sent a loud and clear COVID-19 message to the collegiate sports community. After initially delaying the start of the winter sports schedule until January 2021, the Ivy League Counsel of...more
Amidst the seemingly ever-shifting landscape of college sports, further change just came in a big way from the Sunshine State. On June 12, 2020, Florida enacted a new law that paves the way for intercollegiate athletes at...more
On August 8, the NCAA announced a number of significant changes to its Division I college basketball bylaws. These changes — which come in response to the 2017 federal criminal investigation alleging fraud in college...more