Churchill Downs Incorporated announced yesterday that it will suspend racing operations at Churchill Downs Racetrack, beginning June 7, 2023, through the remainder of the Spring Meet, scheduled to run to July 3. According to the parent company, “Churchill Downs Racetrack has seen an unusual number of horse injuries over the previous month resulting in 12…
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JAMS, the largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide, will “strengthen the integrity of United States horseracing by hearing cases under the newly created Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) Program.” The industry-first program, administered by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit (HIWU), seeks to establish nationwide, uniform and…
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University of St Thomas Department of Ethics and Business Law Professor Emeritus John Wendt authored an article published in Sports Litigation Alert Dec. 16. In “Racing to the Finish: The Close of the Federal Horse Racing Doping Sweep,” Wendt analyzes court cases against a veterinarian who was accused of working in a horse doping operation.…
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hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, has announced new tools are being added to Sports Litigation Alert (Alert), a periodical that has been used in sports law classrooms for more than 15 years, which will make it even more useful for professors and their college students. “There’s a challenge in sports law classes…
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A coalition of wild horse advocacy groups joined Friday in urging the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to heed a recent independent ecological assessment of the Piceance East Douglas Herd Management Area of Colorado and stop the planned roundup up, which will be the largest in state history. The report directly contradicts the BLM’s own claims that…
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Leading up to the running of the New York Racing Association’s (NYRA) 154th Belmont Stakes set for Saturday, Animal Wellness Action executive director Marty Irby issued the following statement: “We are grateful for NYRA’s continued work as a partner in the Coalition for Horse Racing Integrity and reiterate our applause for NYRA’s decision to ban…
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Hackney Publications has announced that its readers have identified Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC as one of a handful of law firms that are leaders in the sports law field in its annual Roster of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About.” Besides recognizing law firms for their achievements, the portal serves as a resource…
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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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Hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, announced last month that new tools have been added to Sports Litigation Alert (Alert), a periodical that has been used in sports law classrooms for more than 15 years, which will make it even more useful for professors and their college students. Shortly thereafter, several…
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BUSR, a boutique online gaming company that boasts celebrity clientele and professional athletes, today announced a record bitcoin wager on the Kentucky Derby. In 2018, the largest wager on the Kentucky Derby using bitcoin was made at BUSR by an executive of a private investment company headquartered in Boston and New York. This individual bet…
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