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
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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
The country’s first unionized college basketball team is no more. After making history just under a year ago, the union representing Dartmouth College men’s basketball players withdrew its petition on December 31 and will no...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 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
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
The recent federal appellate decision in O'Bannon v. NCAA may have profound implications for colleges obligated to ensure gender equity in athletics under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). In the...more
In a partial victory for the NCAA, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned in part a permanent injunction issued by the District Court for the Northern District of California, which had required the NCAA to allow...more