Executive Order Breakdown: President Trump's Vision for College Sports and NIL Reform — Highway to NIL Podcast
CSC Guidance Unveiled: NIL Enforcement and Implications for Collectives — Highway to NIL Podcast
The NCAA's Recent Q&A Document: Clues on What NIL Enforcement Will Look Like Post-House — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Enforcement in a Post-House World – What Institutions Can Expect — Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Effects of House Settlement
House Final Settlement Hearing: Key Insights and Future Implications for NIL — Highway to NIL Podcast
What is the House v. NCAA settlement and how does this ruling affect college sports?
Rescission of DOE Guidance — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Student Athletes as Employees – Changes and Updates on the Dartmouth Case, NIL Litigation
DOE Guidance and DOJ Statement of Interest — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL News: End of Year Roundup — Highway to NIL Podcast
House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
What's the Tea in L&E? Getting Sued for Using Photos of Employees
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 6 | Fielding the Future: Title IX and NIL
NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
Examining the New NCAA Transfer Rules and Tampering - Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Recent Lawsuits
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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...more
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...more
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Kansas State baseball player Cary Arbolida became the latest former JUCO athlete to file a lawsuit against the NCAA. He played three years of JUCO ball – including the COVID-impacted 2020 campaign – before spending the last...more
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NASCAR wants to press pause on a court order that stops it from blocking teams that have asserted antitrust claims against the league from its races, telling the judge who handed down the preliminary injunction that it thinks...more
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $147,000 fine on ESPN for illegally using an emergency-alert sound effect in NBA promos before the start of last season, it announced in a Thursday release....more
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday refused to reopen a former football coach’s lawsuit accusing a Georgia school district of unlawfully refusing to renew his contract because he’s white, backing a lower court’s determination that...more
The U.S. Twirling Association and a coach must pay nearly $4.2 million to a baton twirler who was sexually assaulted as a minor during a sponsored international trip, a New York federal jury has found, saying the organization...more
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, finding that it violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based...more
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has settled an antitrust lawsuit brought in CA federal court by rival MLW Media LLC that accused the entertainment giant of monopolizing pro wrestling broadcasts in the U.S., after WWE...more
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