Controversy swirled after Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, a three-time Olympian and former No. 1-ranked women’s doubles player, accused Zhang Gaoli, a former member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Standing Committee of forcing her to have sex against her will. Then Peng Shuai disappeared. She allegedly turned up in a photo over the weekend at…
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Major League Rugby (MLR) has announced the hire of Ramy Morad as general counsel for the nasceant league, which is in expansion mode. Morad, who will be based in Dallas, reportedly is replacing Peter Moore, a former senior partner at Polsinelli. Moore is now part of Robinson, Waters & O’Dorisio in Denver. Morad was previously…
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Beneficiaries of the Alert include both the private sector and higher education, where professors use the Alert with thousands of sports law students. As Hackney Publications closes in on the completion of its 18th year of publishing Sports Litigation Alert, publisher Holt Hackney is especially proud of the last two issues. “We’re touching on every…
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(From the pages of Sports Litigation Alert) By William J. Robers, of Sparks Willson, P.C. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest court to decide that interscholastic basketball officials are not “employees” of either the assigning organization or the schools. Girard v. International Association of Approved Basketball Officials, Inc. et al., 20-981-cv (2d…
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Hogan Lovells, which boasts one of the leading sports practices in the legal industry, advised USA Cricket on its successful bid to co-host the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup in 2024. The event is historic in that it will be the first global cricket tournament to be staged in the United States.…
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By Hannah Dewey The LEAD1 Association (“LEAD1”), which represents the athletics directors of the 130-member schools of the Football Bowl Subdivision (“FBS”), recently surveyed approximately 100 of its FBS athletics directors on whether the employment status of college athletes would impact funding of non-revenue sports. Of the LEAD1 athletics directors surveyed, more than 90 percent…
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By Jacqueline Borrelli, Kacie Kergides, and Dylan Henry, of Montgomery McCracken (The following is one of thousands of recent stories from the archives of Sports Litigation Alert, a subscription-based publication.) On June 28, 2018, Simone Pryce and her husband sued New York Sports Club (NYSC) (an exercise gym) and its owners for negligence. This suit…
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By The de la Garza Law Group In early November, tragedy struck at a Houston music festival when a crowd surged towards the stage as one of the festival organizers, rapper Travis Scott, performed on stage. Thousands of fans stormed the stage, causing a stampede that trampled hundreds of concertgoers. More than eight people were pronounced…
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Richard Lapchick, Director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida, released the 2021 Major League Soccer Racial and Gender Report Card earlier this week, extolling praise on the association. Using data from the 2021 season, the Report Card includes an analysis of the racial breakdown of…
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Bruce B. Siegal, who joined Greenspoon Marder in its Atlanta office over the summer as of counsel in its Entertainment, Media & Technology Industry Group, will be an adjunct professor of sports law this spring at Georgia Institute of Technology. Siegal, who has more than 30 years of sports industry and intellectual property experience, focuses on…
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