First Liberty Institute announced it joined the legal team representing former NBA referee Ken Mauer, who the league fired after it denied his religious exemption request from the league’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The league required the vaccine for all league officials but not players. “In a moment when it could have showed its commitment to…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of New Mexico, seeking a ruling that federal law gives the agency exclusive authority to regulate certain event-based contracts traded on CFTC-registered exchanges. The filing comes days after New Mexico sued KalshiEX LLC, a CFTC-registered prediction market operator, in state…
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Welsh Boxing has appointed HCR Law Senior Associate Adam Munn to its Board as Legal Director. With his extensive experience in commercial law, governance and the sports sector, Munn will support Welsh Boxing’s Board as it invests “in widening participation of the sport across the community alongside supporting the performance of its elite amateur athletes – particularly…
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A player advocacy organization is urging FIFA to address compensation claims from thousands of current and former professional footballers, arguing that a newly announced agreement between FIFA and the global players’ union does not provide redress for losses allegedly caused by transfer rules found unlawful by Europe’s highest court. Justice for Players issued the statement…
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WSFS Bank, the primary subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WSFS), announced an extension of its naming rights partnership with the Philadelphia Union for the WSFS Bank Sportsplex, a sports and recreation complex located adjacent to Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The facility will continue to operate under the WSFS Bank Sportsplex name through the…
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With one of the nation’s leading sports law practices, Herrick announced this spring that Jermaine A. Brookshire, Jr., associate in Herrick’s Corporate Department and Sports Law Group, was selected as the 2026 Recipient for the Rising Leader Award by the George W. Crawford Black Bar Association. The Rising Leader Award “recognizes a distinguished member of the legal community…
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Florida International University’s College of Arts Sciences and Education has announced that Dr. Nicholas Smith, Associate Teaching Professor, has been awarded a $15,000 research grant from the American Athletic Conference. Dr. Smith’s research proposal, Transfer Uncertainty: Examining the Lived Experiences of College Athletes Languishing in the NCAA Transfer Portal, was selected following a rigorous review…
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Hackney Publications has announced the availability of a recent interview with the TaRonda Randall, a leading sports lawyer with Husch Blackwell (https://www.huschblackwell.com/), on the Sports Law Expert Podcast. The segment, which features a free-flowing and timely discussion about collegiate athletics as well as other topics, can be heard here – https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RINifAw7X3zguPaGLWL25?si=zQ09QhNOQey_JE6oQofDBA. “TaRonda is an emerging…
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(Editor’s note: Reprinted from the pages and Sports Litigation Alert, the nation’s leading sports law periodical, providing subscribers with access to searchable archive of more than 6,000 articles and case summaries.) By Anna Giambelluca, Esq. When we think of concussion litigation, we picture professional football and other major contact sports. Cases involving the NFL, NHL,…
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The NAACP has launched the “Out of Bounds” campaign, a national call for Black athletes, families, fans, alumni, and consumers to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, “which gutted…
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