BSE Global – which manages and operates Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets, its NBA G League team, the Long Island Nets, and its NBA 2K League affiliate (NetsGC) – will host a webinar on November 11, starting at 5 p.m. EST, entitled a Conversation on Sports and the Law Headlining the list of speakers are…
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Jackson Walker’s Bob Latham has been re-elected to another four-year term on the World Rugby Executive Committee, on which he has served as a member since 2011. In addition, Latham was reconfirmed as Chair of the Regulations Committee, a position he has held since 2012. Based in Dublin, World Rugby is the international federation for…
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The Association of Corporate Counsel (Southern California) and Jackson Lewis P.C. will host a complimentary webinar on November 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. PST, that will address how California’s employment laws impact sports industry. Headlining the panel are Gregg E. Clifton and Adam Y. Siegel, of firm Jackson Lewis P.C. Clifton bases in Phoenix…
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A study conducted by Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of Pathology Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Marc Halushka, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, suggests myocarditis caused by COVID-19 may be a relatively rare occurrence. Their findings are published online in…
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The Drake Group issued a position statement applauding The Student Athlete Level Playing Field Act , introduced on September 14, 2020 by a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives: Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Emanuel Cleaver (MO), Marcia Fudge (OH), Steve Stivers (OH), Rodney Davis (IL), Jeffrey Duncan (SC), Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Colin Allred (TX). The Act, if…
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By Peter Dawson, Senior Editor, Hackney Publications Sports law is so intertwined in the legal landscape these days that almost every national story involving the law has a sports law component. Take the passing of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, a judge in United States…
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The Horizon League Board of Directors announced last week the selection of Julie Roe Lach as Commissioner effective January 1, 2021. Roe Lach has served as the Deputy Commissioner for the Horizon League since 2014 overseeing strategic and financial planning, League governance and television and sponsorship management. Her responsibilities also included men’s basketball oversight, including…
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NCAA and Big Ten officials are being asked once more to commence an investigation of Ohio State’s decades-long cover-up of Dr. Richard Strauss’s sexual abuse of nearly 1,500 students and student-athletes. Last week, nearly 200 Strauss survivors and student-athletes requested that the NCAA and Big Ten Conference launch an investigation to hold Ohio State accountable…
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University of Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin sent a COVID Update out this morning to the “Gator Nation” about the football program, which was forced to cancel its game with LSU last weekend and Missouri this weekend because of the virus. “Not only have the Gators Sports Health Staff continued telehealth appointments with the players…
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Athletes for Equity in Sport (“AES”) announced yesterday that it supports the action of the U.S. Congress in passing S. 2330, the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020. “This action by Congress provides significant financial and institutional support to all Olympic and Paralympic Sport athletes by providing further protections from sexual predation…
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