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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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Title IX and Transgender Athletes: Penn's Landmark Settlement and the Legal Implications

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In early July, the University of Pennsylvania said it had reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, resolving a federal investigation into Title IX violations based on transgender athlete participation in...more

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SCOTUS to Determine Whether States Can Ban Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports – What Your School Needs to Know

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The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban transgender high school and college athletes from participating on female sports teams at their schools. After initially declining to review this issue in 2023 and...more

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The House Settlement: College Athletics Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

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On June 6, 2025, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved a settlement allowing NCAA schools to pay student-athletes in an agreement now simply known as The House Settlement. The House Settlement directly resolved...more

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Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Trans-Athlete Bans

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As the Supreme Court Prepares to Decide the Legality of Trans-Athlete Bans, Schools Must Ready Themselves for Far-Reaching Precedent Addressing “On the Basis of Sex” On July 3, 2025, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in...more

Fleurinord Law PLLC

From the Sidelines to Six Figures: Smart Tax Planning for NIL-Earning Student Athletes

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Just a few years ago, if you were a student-athlete, you had two options: maintain eligibility or get paid. You couldn’t have both. That all changed on July 1, 2021, thanks to a landmark shift that rocked the college sports...more

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How the Birthright Citizenship Issue Could Have Fundamentally Affected College Athletes' NIL Rights

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Introduction - While intended to clarify applicable laws, U.S. Supreme Court rulings sometimes have consequences that impact society in unexpected ways.  These unintended consequences can range from altering the...more

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The Supreme Court Update - July 3, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in five cases today: Little v. Hecox; West Virginia v. B.P.J., Nos. 24-38, 24-43: These two cases will address whether states may prohibit transgender women and...more

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Ban on Transgender Women From Female Sports Is Challenged in Court

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On February 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14201, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which aims to prohibit transgender women and girls from participating in female sports across all educational...more

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Frozen at the Starting Line: Biden’s New Title IX Rules Blocked in Majority of States as Schools Torn Between Trump Initiatives...

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Twenty-six states filed litigation in courts nationwide to prevent the enactment of President Biden’s April 2024 revisions to the Title IX statute aimed at increasing protections for LGBTQIA+ athletes, pregnant and parenting...more

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The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 7, July 2024

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July 29, 2024 Welcome to the seventh issue of The Academic Advisor – our e-newsletter focused on education law insights.    In this final summer edition, we look ahead to the new academic year and cover the following...more

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Legal Update: NCAA Athletes As Employees Of Their Schools Gains Momentum In Federal Court And The NLRB

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Introduction - In the past three years, groundbreaking legal and structural changes have shaken collegiate sports. In June 2021, a unanimous Supreme Court held in NCAA v. Alston, 594 U.S. 69 (2021), that the NCAA and some...more

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Game, Set,… and On to the Match: Third Circuit Breaks Precedent, Recognizing That Collegiate Athletes May Assert a Claim Under the...

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On Thursday, the Third Circuit held that collegiate athletes may assert a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The decision in Johnson v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, — F.4th –, 2024 WL 3367646 (3d Cir. July 11,...more

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Name, Image, and Likeness Compensation for Student-Athletes: From the Playing Field to the Courthouse, Is the Ball Now in...

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For decades, student-athletes have asserted that colleges and universities have benefitted from their participation in collegiate athletics, while the student athletes themselves receive nothing in return. A college...more

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Top 5 Takeaways from the 2024 Sports Lawyers Association Conference

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Earlier this month, firm Associate Will Palmer attended the 49th Annual Sports Lawyers Association conference in Baltimore, MD. In addition to networking with plenty of amazing sports lawyers, risk management, and sports...more

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The Practical NLRB Advisor: Spring 2024

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The Spring 2024 edition of the Advisor is a compilation of good and bad news for employers. On the good news side, we discuss several current challenges to administrative agency authority in general, and the National Labor...more

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Student Athletes Secure Victory Over NCAA: Discussing the Future of NIL in Collegiate Athletics

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In July 2021, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston secured student-athletes’ right to monetize their name, image, and likeness (or NIL). Before the landmark decision, the...more

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UPDATE: NLRB Continues Its Full-Court Press on Collegiate Athletics – Inside the Dartmouth Unionization Decision

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UPDATE: The men's basketball team at Dartmouth voted Tuesday, March 5, to unionize – a first in college sports history. We wrote about the labor decision that led to Tuesday's union vote, as well as takeaways for private...more

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Tennessee and Virginia AGs File Antitrust Suit Against NCAA Over New NIL Policies

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On January 31, Tennessee Attorney General (AG) Jonathan Skrmetti, joined by Virginia AG Jason Miyares, filed suit against the NCAA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee for alleged violations of the...more

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NCAA Proposes New Division I Subdivision Which Allows Universities to Directly Compensate Student-Athletes

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Member institutions should begin preparing in earnest for direct student-athlete compensation. The NCAA president unexpectedly circulated a governance blueprint last week that would significantly alter existing Name, Image...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

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When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

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The Labor Law Insider - Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education, Part II

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Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar continues to explore the nexus of labor issues and higher education with veteran labor lawyer Tyler Paetkau of Husch Blackwell’s Labor & Employment group and Jason Montgomery a member of Husch...more

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The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education

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Host Tom Godar is joined by two special guests, Tyler Paetkau and Jason Montgomery, for a special Higher Education edition of the Labor Law Insider. In this first part of a two-part podcast, the panel takes on two recent and...more

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Clashing Times: Developments Concerning Transgender Student Athletes

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On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the State of West Virginia’s application to vacate an injunction imposed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on the State’s enforcement of its version of the “Save Women’s...more

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The NIL Presumption: Is the Newest NCAA Measure a Boon for Enforcement or the Next Front for Legal Challenge?

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The Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) era of college sports has brought headlines, rumors, and dollar signs, but little in the way of NCAA enforcement. The NCAA’s seeming reluctance to take action against perceived violators...more

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NIL-NIL: Exploring the Playing Field of Name, Image, and Likeness

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, NCAA v. Alston, which was decided in July of 2021, opened the door for student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness, or “NIL.” The Court, affirming the Ninth...more

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